Americans will use anything as a measurement unit except the SI, it seems
Seriously, I’m American but I still know how long a meter is. Why not just say ‘an 830 meter wide asteroid’? Now I keep imagining a meteor in the shape of a giant whale.
Asteroid 488453 (1994 XD) is as wide as 830 meters, according to NASA.
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How many strawberries in a banana?
4 metric or 5 short strawberries
What a terrible title. Also, that image is of asteroid 243 Ida which is very far away :)
Terrible headline due to scaling factors. Is it a “killer asteroid” since we’re measuring in “killer whales”? Do we expect it to break in half and sink into the atmosphere Titanic-ally? Does someone have an orcastick, which is like a yardstick but measures orca lengths instead of yards?
I mean, I know Orcas are big, but I wouldn’t call 84 of them mooshed together “titanic”
Yeah, the comparison is straight up odd. 84 busses? Sure. A shit ton of watermelons, ok. How many of us see orcas enough to use as a frame of reference?
hell yeah we should measure every object by how many orcas it is
Important question: are these normal orcas or Spanish communist orcas?
It takes one orca to take down a yacht. Are 84 orcas enough to take down the whole planet?
But how many washing machines is it?
Quick, send an icecube.
