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> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar

Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold??

Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car".

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Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement

It’s a real condition. For me it’s jet liners of various makes. I had to rewrite the quote as “0.005 Boeing 777’s” to be able to comprehend just how strong those snails teeth are.

Sorry, but that's what 14 (standard) pickup trucks of yak hair was invented for.

ok but what color is the yak hair?

Same color as the bike shed, obviously

Not from Unitzikstan I see

White, of course; that way the statisticians can dye them any color they want. But for ultra high precision I do recommend the Boeing system. But be sure to use the older models, before private equity firms replaced all the metal parts with zipties. If you can't find a quality Boeing (plausible), consider 1.1 Blue Whales (tricky).

fnordpiglet was being deliberately humble with the decimals. It's accurate down to the semi firkin. Not to be confused with a quarter Tod.

Ignore the redundant bike shed comment, as that fits precisely 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar. Anyone with a bike should know that.

White is so outdated.

I wish we'd stop ignoring Councilman Blatt's proposal to triple-dye the yak hair Imperial Blue, to minimize the color variation and therefore the effects of mass loss due to black body radation.

We are, after all, trying to be accurate here.

Pickups of Imperial Blue Yak Hair (or PIBYHs) is the clear road to the future and it's dismaying to see any other response from a fellow Unitsman.

Understandable, with how many there are to pick from, and the wiggle room in the longest ones -

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/As...

OP is talking about a football field, not a soccer field. It’s a common joke in America that things have to be measured in football terms.

In the “for what it’s worth” department, Brits called it soccer too. I have no idea why they swapped to football recently.

What's the size of football fields in use for the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) World Cup happening in USA (among others) right now?

You should ask the person I replied to - they already posted soccer field sizes.

Wait, I can do that? Here I've been using Smoots this whole time (with great difficulty might I add).

A football field is by far a better measurement than 3300 one pound bags of sugar.

It is not if all you know are football fields and not American football fields.

I still don’t know how they even compare.

That's why we use the %fill of an Olympic Sized Pool - doesn't matter from what continent the field comes, they fill the pool equally.

Aren't there significant differences in allowed depth (from minimum of 2m to maximum of 3m)?

Good catch. We've run into a problem somewhere along this journey of comparing the compression strength of a snails tooth to the tensile strength of a spiders web.

So a snail's tooth can only hold a 2m deep worth of Olympic pool (sea)water, but it breaks before you get to a 3m deep pool.

Only if you don’t understand that 3300 one pound bags of sugar is 3300 pounds. What an enlightening conversation here. Crème de la crème of modern thinkers.

Obviously it weighs 10,300 baseballs, which are 26 football fields long.

It turns out an astroturf American football field probably weighs 1700 tons, mostly from the 6 inches of stone base under the astroturf. So 3300lbs is .00097 football fields.

Approximately ten defensive linemen

whistles

3.3 kilopounds? That's a lot

> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar

Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?

Is it De Cecco though or some inferior brand like Barilla?

Barilla is fine and I will fight you

The pasta is fine. The owner doesn't like gay people.

Oh, thought this was a noodle fight. A full-on slam down in flavor town. An absolute buffet brawl.

Lol. Four-ish years ago I stopped cheaping out on house-brand pasta and bought Barilla. It was immediately a very obvious step-up in quality I can no longer keep cheaping out on.

Then they made some very slopjob AI ads. Superick but I keep buying them. :|

Why complicate matters with pasta at all when spider silk is, at least metaphorically and rhetorically, at hand?

As hinted at by its 2017 postscript, this article is a mess of incommensurable comparisons.

Staff Sgt. Sykes: [Sgt. Sykes is directing the recruits on how to judge distances] You take what you know, and then you multiply. Please don't use your dicks. They're too small, and I can't count that high. I don't wanna hear, "400,000 inches."

-Jarhead

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418763/

more importantly: how many kilos of feathers versus how many kilos of steel can it hold?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg

whenever i see things like this i think its a tongue-in-cheek joke

Cheeks per tongue will now be used as the weirdest unit for “2.”

just training the next gen LLMs with modern standards of measurements. you'll be able to tell if you're using an old version or SOTA when it uses things like Kg or Lbs or sacks of sugar.

Needs to be 3,300 bags of something I care about. Otherwise you are talking about nonsense or voodoo.

The main question is how many American football fields is that

12 nautical bushels per Fahrenheit

The crazy thing is that it is also equivalent to 33,000 0.1 pound bags of sugar.

I think we're still in the right ballpark bit we're headed for the exits.

.1 lb sugar is 1.6 oz (net), and we'll need to wrap it in paper. I estimate about .5 of an ounce? So we're spending approximately 10% of the weight in packaging. Our nominal 33000 pounds of sugar just got 10% heavier.

At least we haven't resorted to those little sugar packets, which would be colossally worse!

How many hogs to the bushel?

A hogshead is 6.768 bushels in the US and 7.875 in the UK.

How about

> 10x stronger than the jaw of a dog

> 20x stronger than a human jaw

> as strong as the jaws of a great white shark

But how many times can it bite the area of Rhode island?

Those are crushing power, and while they use bad terms for it, they are referring to tensile strength specifically, which is totally different. I don’t know why the hell they chose a spaghetti strand though.

"A modern passenger car" varies widely depending on what locale the reader is in. A passenger car in Jakarta is not at all the same as a passenger car in Los Angeles.

Can we just use Kilograms?

“NO!” - America

It’s more like half a modern passenger car these days.

Yeah, a modern passenger car is such a good weight measure. So much more accurate than 3300 pounds. Are you for real?

because as a reader, bags of sugar are more engaging to me than bags of concrete.

Yeah, I am quite certain I have an easier time visualizing a one-pound bag of sugar—which I have seen at the grocery-store/kitchen/pantry—versus a single-pound bag of concrete.

anything but the metric system.

1,497 one-kilogram bags of sugar.

Much better!

~1.5 Mg of sugar.

Megagrams?? I like it.

I noticed that too. I feel like this might be a new way of laundering AI written text, just provide the quote verbatim as if the they believe it was actually written by the author.

This article is from 2015.

The AI is so good that it traveled back to 2015 and published this paper.

Skynet is real

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