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.
American really will use any measurement except metric
If you regularly use metric in the US, you’re either an aerospace engineer or a drug dealer. lol
Edit: Thank you everyone who ackshually’d my obvious joke. I’m aware metric is more widely used that that.
The fastest way to find out is to ask how many grams are in an ounce.
28.8? Engineer
28? Dealer
And we’ll misapply it as well. The asteroid isn’t the size of 1000 capybaras, it’s as wide as 1000 capybaras lined up. Assuming it’s roughly spherical, it’s actually closer to the size of 524,000,000 capybaras.
Asteroids can be wildly non-spherical though, in shapes way different than capybara non-sphericalities, so it’s not only misapplied but likely also nonsensical… unless, it’s a giant capybara shaped asteroid.
True, but we’re only given the one measurement and can only assume it to be true and accurate. Even if it is non-spherical, so long as the “diameter” given is a true average we can treat it as spherical for this purpose. And, the 1000 capybaras “measurement” is still of by many orders of magnitude.
Is 1,000 capybaras equal to 10,000 guinea pigs or is it 99,729.372456 guinea pigs? I’m bad at conversions.
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Look I think the joke is as funny as anyone else but the “unit” is an animal most of the Americans its meant to lampoon most likely wouldn’t have even heard of.
A kilocapybara
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.
The first asteroid, named 349507 (2008 QY), is a colossal mass that is equivalent in size to a bridge.
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.
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.
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?
