Why are people measuring things in ridiculous metrics like “gorillas”? What population is so stupid that they cannot decipher standard units of measure - and if they can’t, why aren’t we fixing that?
Wait, we’ve stopped using elephants as a unit of measurement? Since when? Are Olympic-sized swimming pools and Empire State Buildings still allowed for volume and height?
You realize they have standard dimensions for hailstones (golf ball, baseball, softball...). I've never heard of anything being described as the size of one gorilla, not to mention twelve and a half...
Why halve any of the gorillas? What was wrong with a family group of seventeen gorillas, including three adolescents, a silverback male and two infants.
nah there's just this one guy working for the jerusalem post whose job it is to invent new units of measurement for every asteroid. the silly units are all made up by the same person trying to go viral.
surprised that they used such an antiquated formula for the volume/mass of an asteroid
would've thought the standard '25 chimpanzee squared divided by number of bananas consumed at breakfast multiplied by the speed of candle light cubed minus 3.14 pies equals astronomical approximates'
I came for this exact answer. I did some research and it seems that one gorilla is about 6 capybara. One capybara is more or less 13 pigeos and a half a large teapot. Hope that helps
americans inventing new ways to calculate the size of something instead of using the metric system (if you truly believe your readers are that dumb you might aswell just write "it big" instead of using something admittedly more confusing than said metric system)
In fact, since they didn't specify gender, and since male gorillas (300-500 lbs) significantly outweigh females (150-250 lbs), it's very imprecise to begin with.
Usually, the error margin is given in percentages. Only estimated masses are denoted in ge (gorilla equivalent) or gt (gorilla tons). The unit gmt (gorilla megatons) was, for similarities to time notation, replaced later by vmgt (very many gorilla tons).
Why can't they use the international size standards recognised by all newspapers? In descending order ; the size of Wales, A number of football pitches or olympic swimming pools, double decker buses or a small family car.
So, we're going to need a projectile the size of at least 1,251 average men to guarantee success in defeating this asteroid were it to change course and head towards earth? Someone better at mathing than me please check my work.
But gorilla's vary in size. Your silver-back male is massive, but the females are smaller.
Obviously, this asteroid is big, but I'd like a tad more precision.
Can you use the British unit scale of size to help me get my head around this. How many double decker buses to a Gorilla....or Gorilla's to a Football pitch, if easier.
I’m not entirely convinced that it’s NASA using that comparison - as incongruous as it may seem, the Jerusalem Post has a looooong history of using the most absurd units of measure they can find to describe asteroid of the week
Are we thinking of size in terms of height only, or is the asteroid really similar to a 3d-scaled version of a gorilla? Even if only thinking of dimensions, that would be highly unusual!
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I just came to count the number of repeats of 'Americans will use anything but..' comments, and human predictability to repeat the same joke well past it's prime hasn't disappointed
I'm glad it's being referred to as a 'very close flyby' rather than a 'near miss', because it isn't a near miss. It's an actual miss. It isn't going to nearly miss us. It will actually miss us. A near-hit if you like.
I was about to write, “Americans will use anything to avoid the metric system,” then I saw the source and realized that people just can’t visualize numbers in general.
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What an odd measurement.
What’s next? Elephants?
Is that just like 12 and 1/2 gorillas in a ball? So it's only like 3x2x2 +1/2 gorillas?
would've thought the standard '25 chimpanzee squared divided by number of bananas consumed at breakfast multiplied by the speed of candle light cubed minus 3.14 pies equals astronomical approximates'
how weird
CNEOS website publishes an "Asteroid Size Estimator"
- though sadly there's no mention of gorillas 😞.
🙂
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/ast_size_est.html
I've got to get out more.
Now it's giraffes, too?
(Oops, forgot! Those distances are equal.)
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Also also I'm American and we are resourceful with our units of measurement
Still, 12.5 Eastern Gorillas is also 1 Ford F150 so there were better ways to describe that mass.
OTP vp
Obviously, this asteroid is big, but I'd like a tad more precision.
Sounds like my husband.
How can I possibly estimate the size of the asteroid without those critical details?!?
So many questions!
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Adult male gorilla up to 195kg
London double decker bus: 12.65 tonnes
So approx 65 gorillas to a London bus. Looks kinda imperial to me.
Let’s be scientific about this
But it's NASA making the gorilla announcement
Laterally or vertically.
That could make all the difference & save lives.
It never fails.
Hope it doesn’t land!
I told them if any of them even got ahold of the gorilla, then what? How do they do damage?
They said crush it. (After 20 men died)
But if you start to pile 80 men on top, the men will crush first. Then what?
"Then crush them"
JFC my boys are Coldblooded 😂🤣
General Ursus could be in charge next month!
Ah, the advance of science and the progress of memetics!
13 gorillas = end of civilization as we know it
Precision is vital