While the asteroid is traveling too far to pose any risk to the Earth, a possible impact event with it could become a worldwide catastrophe.
A kilocapybara
Real science
It’s only missing 24 to make it one Kibibara.
Use measurement units damnit
This is a measurement unit. A bit unconventional, but it’s not any worse than using three grains of barley, dry and round, placed end to end lengthwise, or the length of King Henry I’s foot.
not any worse
I know this is america but could we maybe, just this once, try to measure things better?
The first asteroid, named 349507 (2008 QY), is a colossal mass that is equivalent in size to a bridge.
1 bridge = 1000 capybaras, you heard it here first
This one actually gave me a nice laugh. They are clearly taking a piss at unconventional units of measurement.
My friends and I use golden retrievers as a unit of measurement, would that have been better?
This might help:
https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html
Yup. first time I have seen capybaras used as a unit of measurement.
My ex had titties the size of capybaras but it was mostly because she had the physique of a manatee.
she was truly the sea cow of the land
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That’s the point, they’re making fun of all the news sources that can’t be arsed to give actual measures.
“The forest fire is as big as one million football fields!” means fuck all, but saying “Equivalent to a square 75km by 75km.” that’s a measure that actually means something.
I remember the one that was half a girrafe tall. Which is apparently 2.14m which can also ve discribed as 1 Shaq
What’s really going to fuck with you is that the fire is mostly confined to the boundaries, so a fire would be better measured by units of length. It’s not like you have 75 square kilometers simultaneously on fire, you’ve got 75 square kilometers burned, as in past tense, and some amount of the outline of that is currently on fire.
How do you measure the perimeter on fire though? Do you go tree to tree, leaf to leaf, or trace the perimeter of each separate leaf?
Well you’re no fun at all
Me, a normal human being: ah yes, one thousand capybaras large, I know exactly its size now.
Y’all are weird not knowing this measurement system. Makes as much sense as miles and inches.
That’s almost 3 football fields!
Remember to get out and vote!
he has my vote
Anyone downvoting this is boring and doesn’t understand the fun of capybara math 🤣
‘Americans will literally use any other form of measurement other than metric’
I don’t think they know how volume calculations work. When I read 1000 Capybaras, I though “huh, that’s not actually that big”, until they say it’s actually the diameter or that much capybaras.
Would you rather see 1 astroid size capybara or 1000 capybara sized astroids?
That’s easy, the capybara sized asteroids. The only ones who have to care are in space.
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1.2 km long, for anyone wondering.
Which is why it’s silly to represent the size of the asteroid in capybara lengths. We should be representing it in capybara volumes or masses. Probably be something more like 1 billion capybaras.
Volume is the worst reported measure, it’s only Olympic swimming pools. I want to know acre feet.
That’s a planet killer.
I only accept measurements in washing machines and football fields.
No London buses?
That sounds like some Metric bullshit.
How many large McDonald’s sodas is it? As an American, I don’t understand any other measurement.
I like to measure in statue of liberties if it going to be really big.
How big is it in beans pray tell
Would that be Heinz finest, and are we including the juice?
Just the beans
One capybara weighs on average 108lbs or about 16.5 AR-15s fully loaded.
So the asteroid weighs roughly as much as 422,559 AR-15s with a loaded 20 rd magazine. (Warning my math is bad as I’m American.)
It looks like they are using the length of a capybara, which is just over a meter not the weight. So it’s 1,446 ar15s in diameter.
But how many Olympic swimming pools is that? Or is that a unit of volume… sorry, I think I’m looking for the number of football fields, yes how many of those is it in diameter?
It’s 3 football fields plus 2 baseball fields plus 7 soccer fields plus 4 cricket fields plus 200 tennis courts.
And that equals how many freedom units exactly?
Wake up, new type of measurement system just dropped. Will America finally replace imperial?
Once again, the US is behind the times. The UK switched to Lobsters recently… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NJloYFS4pY
But how many bananas is that?
Using an average capybara measurement of 4 feet in length, that would be 6.8 bananas, so 1000 capybaras would be roughly 6800 bananas.
Assuming a banana of an average length of 7 inches.