Some people are just more comfortable with good old familiar units like baby elephants per corgi. What do they even use for that in the metric system? Millihectares per decilitre or something? Whatever.

What will we call a half ton? George Washington: 4 baby elephants.

The most fucked unit of measurement I've seen is your mom.

Is nobody bothered about how un-corgi-sized the meteor on the picture is?

Had to check that it's actually plausible.

Assuming a corgi is 0.4m long, 0.3m tall and 0.2m wide and that a baby elephant weighs 120kg that gives the meteor a density of 20000kg/m³.

There are only a few elements denser than that, but it's possible.

Mixing units of measurement here; corgis are metric dogs.

I need a banana for scale.

Would be a great fit here

You know well that Americans have only a very loose grip on units and reality. That's why they use imperial and "elephants per football field" like units.

you have to adapt to the target audience.. look where that asteroid hit.

The hate for the french is everywhere 😓😓😓

You mean you can fit 4 baby elephants inside a corgy? Damn...

This seems worse.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10610491/Asteroid-half-size-giraffe-strikes-Earth-coast-Iceland.html

Americans will measure anything except use metric 😂

So that's, what, around 7 loaves of Wonder Bread weighing the same as one and a half gorillas?

Fahrenheit is still saner than Celsius for outside temperatures.

So if a baby elephant weighs 250 lbs (middle of the 200-300 lb range Google gave me) and a corgi is 11 inches tall (and that the extra corgi length is compensated for by the fact that we are assuming that this corgi is spherical), that's 1.43 lb/in^3. I've run out of time to do conversations, but this meteor was apparent at least part neutron star.

Elephants from Asia or Africa ? How old babies ?

IDK, I'm metric all the way, but this is pretty helpful for illustration, and I don't think 0.2m³ and 500kg would necessarily tell me something that corgis and elephants don't.

How many gumballs is that, Bluejay?

Amerikkkans (well, Tekkkans) will do anything but use the Metric system.

What the fuck is that thing made off?

Do all Americans have a good sense of how much a baby elephant weighs? My impression is just a vague “it’s heavy, though less so than an adult elephant, which is really heavy”

Four baby elephants? How many baby elephants does it take to make one adult elephant? This leaves me with more questions than answers..

The meteor was approximately the size of 2,419 jack rabbit heads, and weighed in at just under 9,071 used condoms.