lol a material that dense and that small would just blow up

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

Obvious product placement by the baby elephant lobby

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I'm confused.

Not from the mass or size.

But from exactly what it is doing to Mars?

Product placement getting the bills paid without being excessively obnoxious--rare.

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.

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?

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I use metric to hold papers down on my desk.

If I have 10 papers, I add another metric.

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It's not "Meteor the size of a Dr Pepper" but "A meteor The size of Dr Pepper" as in the whole company.

So, 12oz can contains 355mL, which is 355cm^3

Okay so how much force is 3 baby elephants?

Yes, I’d try to estimate the density.

Weird America. Weiiiiiird.

Is it coming at us at 28 times the speed of light?

Most people probably know how big a pop can is, and understand that even baby elephants are pretty heavy. It gets the point across better than "A meteor with a volume of approximately one third of a litre and a mass of approximately 350 kilograms".

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.

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.

That would be a density of over 750 g/cm³, more than 20 times denser than Osmium, the denset known material (outside extreme gravity wells)

Somebody messed up their arithmetic. Three baby elephants weight roughly 800 lbs. To weigh that much, an object the size of a soda can would have to be composed of extremely dense matter, like from the interior of a star.

Yeah no they didn't. Not unless it's the world's smallest neutron star.

Seriously even if you don't know a thing about science, all you have to do is look at those numbers and you can intuit that they don't work.

How does one "orbitit"

Even if it were composed entirely of osmium, it would have that mass.