stopthatgirl7Giant asteroid the size of 1,000 capybaras to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA
While the asteroid is traveling too far to pose any risk to the Earth, a possible impact event with it could become a worldwide catastrophe.
Anyone downvoting this is boring and doesn’t understand the fun of capybara math 🤣
Custoslibera‘Americans will literally use any other form of measurement other than metric’
American really will use any measurement except metric
It really was a disservice to my generation and after (late 30s) that they gave up on it.
Admiral PatrickIf you use metric in the US, you’re either an aerospace engineer or a drug dealer. lol
Or the military, they use it a ton
Or the military, they use it a ton 907kg.
The ton is a metric unit too isn’t it?
A metric ton is 1000 kg. Source: Aerospace Military Industrial Complex drug dealer.
FuglyDuckYea, but the dealers only go to 900kg, because of their commission.
I only got 800kg from my guy to begin with, not sure where your numbers are coming from
“This is why you need to pick up your drop promptly. The coast guard and DEA have been using sharks to go after drops. Honest!”
Your dealer, probably
It’s both, or rather all three, because the Brits have their own ton as well.
And people give the Americans shit for their relationship with units and measures
At least American kids aren’t weighed in stone lol
TIL only aerospace engineers and drug dealers buy soda at the grocery store.
The fastest way to find out is to ask how many grams are in an ounce.
28.8? Engineer
28? Dealer
Wtf is an ounce? Scientist
Or just a car mechanic. Tales of 10mm sockets disappearing abound.
I’d switch, but I’ve been on the Capy system my whole life, and it’s just much more intuitive for me. Everyone knows how long a Capybara. How fucking long a meter is? Beats the fuck out of me, maybe a half cap?
TransplantedSconieYou may deny it, but capybara measurement is peak measurement.
If it were an American measurement it would be made in Hamberders
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Look I think the joke is as funny as anyone else but the “unit” is an animal most of the Americans its meant to lampoon most likely wouldn’t have even heard of.
We’ve all seen the memes, thank you very much.
Is 1,000 capybaras equal to 10,000 guinea pigs or is it 99,729.372456 guinea pigs? I’m bad at conversions.
It depends on your motivation to pack them in the allotted space.
And we’ll misapply it as well. The asteroid isn’t the size of 1000 capybaras, it’s as wide as 1000 capybaras lined up. Assuming it’s roughly spherical, it’s actually closer to the size of 524,000,000 capybaras.
We talking length or width?
Volume.
Asteroids can be wildly non-spherical though, in shapes way different than capybara non-sphericalities, so it’s not only misapplied but also nonsensical.
True, but we’re only given the one measurement and can only assume it to be true and accurate. Even if it is non-spherical, so long as the “diameter” given is a true average we can treat it as spherical for this purpose. And, the 1000 capybaras “measurement” is still of by many orders of magnitude.
originaluciferi love this measurement. it belies the articles importance
halfemptyYup. first time I have seen capybaras used as a unit of measurement.
My ex had titties the size of capybaras but it was mostly because she had the physique of a manatee.
robocallshe was truly the sea cow of the land
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Would you rather see 1 astroid size capybaras or 1000 capybara sized astroids?
1000 capybaras pulling up is more pulling up than 1 giant one pulling up; there's more surface area to pull up with
That's easy, the capybara sized asteroids. The only ones who have to care are in space.
1.2 km long, for anyone wondering.
Which is why it’s silly to represent the size of the asteroid in capybara lengths. We should be representing it in capybara volumes of weights. Probably be something more like 1 billion capybaras.
Volume is the worst reported measure, it’s only Olympic swimming pools. I want to know acre feet.
That’s a planet killer.
edgemaster72How many bananas or Toyota Corollas is that?
12 corollas
15 billion bananas
Source: im a math doctor
Thank you for your service, doctor
A_Awtf are capithigny ? Don’t bother I don’t care.
You’d care if you knew how adorable they are.
Its a giant guinea pig
maajWho the fuck measures anything in capybaras? I hope the goddamn shit hits us at this point. We’re living in Idiocracy.
That’s the point, NASA is making fun of all the news sources that can’t be arsed to give actual measures.
“The forest fire is as big as one million football fields!” means fuck all, but saying “Equivalent to a square 75km by 75km.” that’s a measure that actually means something.
I remember the one that was half a girrafe tall. Which is apparently 2.14m which can also ve discribed as 1 Shaq
What’s really going to fuck with you is that the fire is mostly confined to the boundaries, so a fire would be better measured by units of length. It’s not like you have 75 square kilometers simultaneously on fire, you’ve got 75 square kilometers burned, as in past tense, and some amount of the outline of that is currently on fire.
How do you measure the perimeter on fire though? Do you go tree to tree, leaf to leaf, or trace the perimeter of each separate leaf?
Well you’re no fun at all
at_an_angleOne capybara weighs on average 108lbs or about 16.5 AR-15s fully loaded.
So the asteroid weighs roughly as much as 422,559 AR-15s with a loaded 20 rd magazine. (Warning my math is bad as I’m American.)
It looks like they are using the length of a capybara, which is just over a meter not the weight. So it’s 1,446 ar15s in diameter.
But how many Olympic swimming pools is that? Or is that a unit of volume… sorry, I think I’m looking for the number of football fields, yes how many of those is it in diameter?
It’s 3 football fields plus 2 baseball fields plus 7 soccer fields plus 4 cricket fields plus 200 tennis courts.