lol a material that dense and that small would just blow up
True, quick math that’s 4225x heavier than pure uranium, but still 666x lighter than neutron star soup. No material holds together at that density without a stars worth of gravity
Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding. Could you express that in approximate number of cans of Dr. Pepper?
you need the gravity of a star like Taylor Swift to hold a mass as small as Marco Rubio but as dense as R.F. Kennedy Jr.
Perfection.
It’s the size of a dr. Pepper and the weight of 3 baby elephants.
It’s also the size of a baby elephant foot and the weight of 728 cans of dr. Pepper.
Now do Empire State buildings and football fields.
That’s fine and dandy, but what I really wanna know now is, to the size of how many Dr. Pepper cans can I compress 3 baby elephants and have that hold together?
3 baby elephants, each about 100 kg is 300 kilogram. Round to density of water, so say 300 liter and ignore the chunks. One can is 0.355 liter. Round to ⅓ liter. That makes 900 cans. About one pallet low stacked pallet.
Thanks for spelling that out, but maybe I need to be more specific about the assignment. In your example the elephants still consist of elephant matter. I wanna know what happens, if we’re allowed to change that on a nuclear level, so shift some protons, neutrons (and whatever other particles, that I know nothing about) around. How many Dr. Pepper cans is the currently known limit of physics here?
Say we change the mass of elephants to osmium. That’s 41 liter or 123 cans. That fills up about half of the bottom of a pallet.
Say we chuck the elephants into Jupiter and let them sink to the core. That’s 27 liter or 80 cans. Roughly 3 cardboard trays of 24 cans each.
Say we chuck the elephants into the center of the sun. That’s 2 liter or 6 cans, so a six-pack.
If you use exotic matter things get silly. You’re not talking about cans anymore. 300 kilograms of neutronium is barey a micrometer in size. Black hole matter is smaller than a proton.
Metric fuckton
Say you had a year’s* worth of Dr. Pepper supplies jam-packed into a single can of Dr. Pepper.
* approximate values assuming 3 servings a day
NASA originally published that it was around 1000 pounds and two feet across. Then Jpost sensationalized it. A ball of iron that size would be about 1800 pounds.
Somethings amiss here, the article talks about a meteorite that broke up in earths atmosphere, and above there’s talk about mars
The meme is fake. It’s one of those “breaking news” generated images and the “Channel 23” logo is just slapped on.
Small can syndrome
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how is that possible, isnt the densest element like 22g/cm^3? i dont know how much 3 baby elephants weight but its definitely more
It’s a sarcastic shitpost. Don’t over think it.
Must be really small baby elephants
Chunk of a neutron star, of course.
Technically ya just need some neutron degenerate matter, you can get way beyond that density. Yay!
They did the math. Thank you sir!
Obvious product placement by the baby elephant lobby
How old are the baby elephants used to measure this? And which species?
They’re chocolate elephants that you get from the grocery store on Easter
As old as baby elephants, exactly.
Same species as baby elephants surprisingly.
So, before they become toddler elephants. Got it.
Alex Horne wrote this.
You can’t beat the boulder units
large boulder the size of a small boulder
How much bricks is this?
I’m confused.
Not from the mass or size.
But from exactly what it is doing to Mars?
What, you’ve never obitited something?
Product placement getting the bills paid without being excessively obnoxious–rare.
Metric is scientific, media units are relatable. 355 CC’s with a mass of roughly 360 kgs is hardly easy to visualize compared to 3 elephants on a scale next to a can of Dr Pepper.
Metric is perfectly relatable for anyone growing up using it. This is just you outing yourself as USAmerican.
P.S. We would use Litres, which everyone has a concept of (Everyone has seen a 1 litre carton of milk) and is easily converted to/ from cubic cm (1000 cm^3 = 1 L = 1000 mL).
While this is probably the reason they do this, I hate that they don’t mention the correct number before giving a “relatable” example.
I know what 355 cm^3 is roughly. And I know how much sth. Weighs in kg.
I don’t know how heavy a elephant baby is. Wtf?
Yes. And “baby elephant” is also a vague term to begin with. I imagine a 1 week old elefant weighs a lot less than a 20 week old one. How long is an elephant considered a baby? I have no idea.
Yesterday I searched for how much an acre is, only to find this: https://www.wagrown.com/what-does-an-acre-look-like
1,584 potatoes
The amount of potatoes needed to make a line from one end to the other end of an acre.And Wikipedia made it sound even funnier to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre
It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1⁄640 of a square mile, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare.
Or with rods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)
The ‘perfect acre’ is a rectangular area of 43,560 square feet, bounded by sides 660 feet (a furlong) long and 66 feet (a chain) wide (220 yards by 22 yards) or, equivalently, 40 rods by 4 rods. An acre is therefore 160 square rods or 10 square chains.
If you’ve ever played or watched cricket, which is a very imperial kind of game, then the pitch (the distance between the wickets) is exactly one chain, and the field (the whole playing ground) is typically one acre although it isn’t standardised.
Cricket ball is leather, about the size of your fist, and surprisingly heavy. A chain is about as far as you can throw such a ball over-arm, and an acre is about the circle of how far you can smack such a ball with a bat before it touches the ground.
Completely unserious country, lol
Agreed, this seems like a 100% completely honest attempt to be a relatable reference and clearly has no humor injected into it at all.
edit: 1 acre is equivalent to 4 ‘roods’ lmao that’s wonderful.
heavy would imply weight wouldn’t it? if they are all in orbit wouldn’t 10,000 baby elephants weigh the same as 3, the same weight as a football field, or an Olympic sized swimming pool, and the same as a single can of Dr Pepper?
It could also imply mass which doesn’t change regardless of gravity.
Also being in orbit doesn’t significantly reduce the amount of gravity impacting the object. The reason astronauts feel weightless is because bring in orbit means they are moving fast enough to keep missing the object they are orbiting. So it isn’t a lack of gravity, it is constant free fall.
Weird America. Weiiiiiird.
Y’all failed to realize that Americans are math, science, and just regular plain sorts of illiterate. So if you want them to understand anything, you have to give it to them in units they can physically see or common household objects.
Just think of it as trying to explain a difficult concept to a toddler or maybe at best a six-year-old. That’s what it feels like talking to the American public.
To be fair, that’s the level of education, that mainstream media outlets expect of the general population elsewhere, as well.
Here in Germany, they reference things in bathtubs, football fields (read: soccer), and Saarlands.
Motherfucker, how often do you think we encounter baby elephants?
Often enough to use as a unit of measurement for the mathematically and scientifically illiterate citizens
Is it coming at us at 28 times the speed of light?
