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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Anything But Metric@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 1 month ago

Metric system? Pffft....

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Metric system? Pffft....

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Anything But Metric@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 1 month ago
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cross-posted from: https://fedinsfw.app/c/lemmyshitpost/p/340906/metric-system-pffft

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    Yeah, how would anything be that dense?

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      I thought the same, ~500kg of mass in the volume of a Corgi, about 0.015 m^3, is around 33.3g/cm^3 (4 times the density of iron, 3 times that of lead, and 1.5 times that of gold). But after going to the article they say the ‘diameter’ was the length of a corgi so it would be 0.113 m^3, with a density of 4.4g/cm^3. Which is what you could expect of something made of iron and rock.

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        I see, then it’s just a bad comparison in the article.

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        !theydidthemath@mander.xyz

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      Must be made of government officials

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        Naw it’d full of hot air if that was the case.

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