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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I don't think this is possible. As far as I know, osmium is the densest element. A 355 cc chunk of osmium would only be about eight kilograms. I'm not sure what mass a baby elephant has, but I'm going to assume three of them would be well above eight kilos.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Nah, the drink is just american sized

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

It's "child-sized".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It contains 300kg of sugar, or for the Americans here, about 3 baby elephants of sugar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

best explanation so far.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago

The article writer got things confused. The meteor is the size of Dr Hans Pepper, not the soft drink Dr Pepper.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

It's probably some stupid way of describing it's inertia

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can confirm, am American and three baby elephants are way heavier than whatever communist unit a "kilo" is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Sounds like some made-up British nonsense to me, like the stone. Can you rephrase in slugs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

IIRC elephants are born at 100 kg.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

That is much larger than a can of Dr. Pepper. The photograph is so clear and it's covered in fucking craters.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can't believe I'm the first one to mention the "Orbititing".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Right, it clearly should be "orbititting"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

orbititting goth girlfriend

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Now nasa is doing ad placements?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Damn 3 Baby elephants? That's like 225 ducks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As an American what I don't get is if a foot is roughly 30cm and a kg is 2.2lbs how hard of a conversion is it really?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

It's extremely hard actually. The problem isn't the math, it's the ability to communicate with other Americans because you'll be speaking a foreign language.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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