>The team applied pressure equal to 640 African elephants on the tip of a ballet shoe
Tripe like this is does not help in making sense of the (now missing) numbers. What's the problem with something concrete like kg/sqcm?
Tripe like this is does not help in making sense of the (now missing) numbers. What's the problem with something concrete like kg/sqcm?
For a mammal, maybe. For the rest of Animalia that’s not extreme at all.
And of course if you ever talk about bovines you will have to use the standard spherical cow as a measure.
As for the spherical cow, is that a metric sphere or a US customary sphere?
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weight+of+640+African+...
Unfortunately Wolfram Alpha does not know the area of the tip of a ballet shoe.
For most pointe shoes with a rounded platform there is much less than 10cm squared of contact.
kg isn't a measure of force. And the world will be a nicer place once we retire the oddball prefixes of centi, deci, deka, and hecto.
Why? Is that just so we have fewer things to remember, or is there a more obvious benefit I'm missing?
I can roughly envision a giant pile of elephants exerting force on a tiny patch of ground better than I can interpret PSI or atmospheres.
The point is not to convey an exact amount. It is to say “it’s a shitload”.