Danilo GR
Robert MaguireWorld: Can the US please just use the metric system, instead of making up weird measurements no one else understands
US:
Try picking up a corgi-sized chunk of osmium
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RT @yFactr
@RobertMaguire_ The meteor is either the size of a corgi or as heavy as four baby elephants, it simply cannot be both
https://twitter.com/yFactr/status/1628087133037637655
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RT @yFactr
@RobertMaguire_ The meteor is either the size of a corgi or as heavy as four baby elephants, it simply cannot be both
https://twitter.com/yFactr/status/1628087133037637655
There are now multiple very serious discussions in my mentions about corgi physics and the various sizes of different species of elephants in their infancy
Darrel Plant@RobertMaguire
Corgis…in Space!
Corgis…in Space!
Marcia Hendrick@RobertMaguire Are we talking just-born baby elephants? What is the baby elephant growth rate per diem? Has this corgi been fed all the treats its whole life, and is now as rotund as a small boulder? Inquiring minds want to know.
Keith DaggettAs it should be.
This America, mate, where there is a serious and committed relationship to subliminal chaos theory.
Either you roll, or you don't.
Kolinzkay@RobertMaguire are any of those elephants called Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, or Jerakeen as this may involve more than a single error of magnitude. 
Don Magnétophone@RobertMaguire How many corgis in one baby elephant ?
teledyn 𓂀Don't mix your domains! Corgi is a unit of volume, baby elephants are a unit of mass and a coon's age their unit of time. So you want to compute the baby elephants per corgi per coon's age.
Erik Buitenhuis@RobertMaguire sure it can! A corgi sized corgi is lighter than 4 baby elephants, a corgi sized black hole is heavier. There must be something corgi sized of equal weight.
Filthius
Clinical Rawlsian
Laurens 🐐@RobertMaguire
'How much does a baby elephant weigh again?'
'As much as three large tortoises.'
'Ah yes, thanks.'
'How much does a baby elephant weigh again?'
'As much as three large tortoises.'
'Ah yes, thanks.'
It's not all that different from the rod, links and chains they made us learn in English public schools.
So long as the US keeps good care of their reference corgi, small boulder and baby elephant, which I assume are held safe in the Smithsonian, I'm pretty ok with it.
Outeast
Wolf_Baginski@teledyn @ElBeeToots @RobertMaguire
I have used chains and links to measure land. I was still at Primary school.
I also know what a rod, pole, or perch is, but we're not allowed Poles in the post-Brexit era.
Agitatra 🚲🐻🌿🇪🇺🇺🇦@teledyn @ElBeeToots @RobertMaguire Well I guess, this works fine with boulders. However, baby elephants and corgies tend to change their size and weight over time. When fed well they tend to increase both, otherwise the opposite happens... down to a mere skeleton. So a rigid diet plan has to be established, which by all means has to be followed to the last cricket of food.
@agitatra This looks like some solid and thought-through theory.
I know. It's tricky. What makes matters worse is there are so few shops where you can get your corgi properly calibrated 😔
Ministerofimpediments@ElBeeToots @RobertMaguire
I think they provided an update. I've been told it was the size of a semi-flatulent corgi (as opposed to a fully flatulent corgi) and it's weight was measured to the standard of an 80th percentile African baby elephant as opposed to Indian/Asian elephants. The corgi can be considered washed and brushed whereas the elephant is bog standard. Hopefully that clears it all up...
I think they provided an update. I've been told it was the size of a semi-flatulent corgi (as opposed to a fully flatulent corgi) and it's weight was measured to the standard of an 80th percentile African baby elephant as opposed to Indian/Asian elephants. The corgi can be considered washed and brushed whereas the elephant is bog standard. Hopefully that clears it all up...
@ministerofimpediments Ah, thank you for the additional information. This is very helpful!
Timo Grün
ghorwood↙↙↙@khoji @RobertMaguire the yard->nautical mile and the foot->nautical mile... don't equate to the same number of feet.
3x2x100x10 = 6080 is a hell of a measurement system.
@ghorwood @RobertMaguire
I know. Quite a lot of it is specious, but still funny. Not my creation, btw.
I know. Quite a lot of it is specious, but still funny. Not my creation, btw.
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw@ghorwood @khoji @RobertMaguire probably because the nautical mile is derived as one arc minute of latitude and isn’t strictly related to the other measures in the imperial system.
Greg Wellman@khoji @RobertMaguire
1. Very cool visualization!
2. There's some problem with the nautical mile. One of the steps fathom->cable->nautical mile must be slightly off, or the n.m. is only 6000'. (I google) Ok, the n.m. is 6076', and a cable is *approximately* 101.3 fathoms.
1. Very cool visualization!
2. There's some problem with the nautical mile. One of the steps fathom->cable->nautical mile must be slightly off, or the n.m. is only 6000'. (I google) Ok, the n.m. is 6076', and a cable is *approximately* 101.3 fathoms.
Just someone else who also posted it, so effectively no known source.
Ron Sullivan@RobertMaguire Aw, come on. What could be more universal then the corgi/baby-elephant ratio? Dude, that's dense!
captpayne@RobertMaguire The US still measures icebergs in units of Manhattan Island.
MikeWas@RobertMaguire You’ve clearly never met a four-elephant corgi.
Dyn Hafren - NSFW 🏴🇪🇺🔞
Paranoid Factoid@RobertMaguire This is the wrong site to be complaining about the US using elephants as a unit of measure. *cough!*
lythander@RobertMaguire They did use a dog from the UK and weight-measure from parts more remote. That is progress of a sort.
Also, in doing so, they made sure no one has any fucking idea what they meant, most especially in Texas.
Paul@RobertMaguire Without reading the article, I’m pretty sure NASA used SI units, and the paper needed to convert to Texas units
Cavedale Rhônes@RobertMaguire it has to be the official royal corgi or the measurement is non standard.
anitavondannen@RobertMaguire it’s hopeless. These ppl are so stupid and ignorant and still believe in their superiority. A fatal combination.
BogDrakonov@RobertMaguire this article title causes me physical pain that can only be treated in mg of Tylenol. Not pugs of Tylenol, milligrams…like an adult.
𝓥𝓲𝓬𝓽🍓𝓻𝓲𝓪@BogDrakonov @RobertMaguire *paracetamol FTFY
Phil Regnauld ✅@RobertMaguire imperial or us elephants ?
Sebastian Lammermann@RobertMaguire How much is that in toe nails?!
Kenneth@RobertMaguire Not enough meteor, we need to wipe out Texas.
TheTenuousOrder@RobertMaguire what does a baby elephant weigh, NASA?
PammyStarr 
✍️@RobertMaguire all that really matters is that it hit Texas.
Betsy
D. G. MarshallI thought the correct US way to measure meteorites was in half-giraffes.
Unprecedented 2023@RobertMaguire Nope, excuse is retooling, blah, blah, blah. Not progressive.
Dr. Flowers@RobertMaguire @NurseStacey I understand the descriptive measurements more than I would any other system.
John Colagioia@RobertMaguire I suspect that NASA did not, in fact, say that.
...Unless there's a tech who wanders the country walking a team of baby elephants, carrying a corgi under his arm, deployed to crisis scenarios. But I feel like we'd have a TV series about that guy by now.
Chris Brennan
Christopher Walker@RobertMaguire dang it I forgot my conversions already. How many small ponies to the baby elephant again?
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
Daniel Brahneborg, PhD 🇸🇪@RobertMaguire Sounds bigger than a small boulder, but smaller than a large boulder.
mandlebro@RobertMaguire I don’t understand what using analogies has to do with metric vs imperial. In non technical communication, analogies are usually an efficient and easy to understand way of communicating quantitive information.
xs4me2Yes please, use stone instead.
Scot Close@RobertMaguire
Were the four elephants standing on the back of a turtle?
Were the four elephants standing on the back of a turtle?
conscientious objector 🇨🇭🪂🤓🕊️🖖
Doug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦@RobertMaguire How many swimming pools or football fields is that?
Jennie@RobertMaguire That is one dense corgi!!
Tanoujin Milestone@RobertMaguire A welsh Corgi reaches 12 inch hands hight and 26,5 lbs. 4 newborn asian elephants have around 880 lbs. So, Osmium, Ididium, Platinum, Rhenium, Neptunium, Plutonium, Gold, Tungsten, Uranium, Tantalum are the candidates. I love imperial, they take you on along journey and let you shrug in the end :-D