Does someone feels the courage to open /m/anythingbutmetric?
The narwhal bacons at midnight 🤪
Not no more it ain’t
Hi, OP here, I just want to thank you personally for what you’ve done.
And this is how today I learnt that the Brooklyn Bridge is the size of 99 narwhals: https://usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/13/nasa-asteroid-brooklyn-bridge-passing-earth/70316864007/
And an orca is the size of 1.18 narwhals: https://www.jpost.com/science/article-745973
And, finally, an alpaca is the size of 5.6 orcas or 6.6 narwhals: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/asteroid-the-size-of-15-alpacas-to-fly-past-earth-on-monday-nasa/ar-AA1cHfy5
I’m not a New Yorker, but it looks to me like the Brooklyn Bridge should be able to fit more than 15 alpacas.
Can someone convert that to bananas for me
Colossal banana the size of 99 narwhals to pass Earth Thursday - NASA
I was too lazy to do this manually, so I punched it into GPT 4. I did verify that the math, indeed, checks out.
Edit: Sorry for the edits. GPT assumed the tusk in the calculation, so I had to ask it to remove the tusk for this math to check out properly.
- The size of a narwhal: Narwhals typically range in size, but males on average can be about 4.7 meters long.
- The length of a banana: The length of a banana varies, but a typical banana is about 18 centimeters long.
Let’s start by converting the asteroid size from narwhals to meters.
If 99 narwhals equal 850 meters, then one narwhal would be approximately 850/99 ≈ 8.59 meters.
Now, this doesn’t match the usual size of a narwhal that we have (4.7 meters). There might be a discrepancy in the calculation, but for the sake of this exercise, let’s use the size provided.
Now, let’s convert the asteroid size to bananas.
850 meters is equivalent to 850 * 100 = 85000 centimeters.
If 1 banana is 18 cm, then:
85000 cm / 18 cm/banana ≈ 4722.22 bananas.So, the asteroid is approximately 4722 bananas long, if we base the calculation on the given size of the narwhal. But please note, this is a fun approximation and might not be precise.
Thank you good human, I now have an excellent, exactly approximate idea of how big the 99 narwhals meteor is. 👏🎉🏆
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Not surprising, that’s a pretty small explosion for a day in Texas.
I came here to complain about the measurement too, so I’m converting it.
The Asteroid is 850m across, which is about 28 blue whales long, or 283 bottlenose dolphins, or 1118 golden retrievers.850m? What’s m? That’s not a SI unit (Stupid Imperial)
It’s approximately 2789 freedom feet
99 narwhals? How many football fields is that? And bananas? If we stop using standard units I’m lost xD
@ivlarac pretty much just coming here to ask about units of measurement too… I think TheRegister has a converter…
The average weight of an adult male narwhal is 800 to 1,600 kg (1,760 to 3,530 lb)
Using https://www.converttobananas.com/weight-converter/ that’s 7054 to 14109 bananas per narwhal…
or 698,345 to 1,396,791 bananas for 99 of themThanks! At least something we can al understand!
I’m gonna be real with you, I don’t know how big a narwhal is.
How many half giraffes?
Size is a terrible word to use. Something with a length of 99 narwhals is far bigger than one with the mass of 99 narwhals.
This is true, someone who is smarter than I will have to figure out how many narwhals it weighs though.
