Of course, even if it's large enough not to become a singularity, the effects of neutronium on your desk are going to require a coaster, at the very least.
Hey, now! We know liters; that's how you buy soda! 😄
(It actually grinds my gears that I learned the entire metric system in 5th grade and we didn't switch over. Except Celsius; the degrees are too big. You can have my F when you pry them from my 4 degree C hands!)
If you have a measure of something that's, we'll say 1-100, and then someone tells you you have to measure in chunks of 12.6, that's gonna be hard, because you're accustomed to using 1s. Just as someone else said, if the difference between two numbers is bigger, it's harder to calibrate.
In F, to give someone a rough idea of the temperature outside, you can just say "it's in the 60s" and someone would know what to wear. In Celsius you can't say "it's in the 10s" because there is a huge difference between 10C and 19C.
The joke is imagining that globes have the mass of earth. Then, if a globe were manufactured to be too small, it would become a black hole, so we must have safety regulations to prevent this
Reminds me of a probability explainer on risk that pointed out as backup nylon hose were acquired to hedge against risk of all pairs running the risk of spontaneous black hole formation incrementally increased.
To be honest, this is an easy risk to overlook. My house was built 120 years ago, so definitely measured up in feet and inches. But when I put some Ikea furniture in it, it doesn’t suddenly crash into Mars.
Queen Victoria died Jan 22nd 1901. Assuming bricklayers to be aged 20 (probably older) at the time of her death that would make them 144 years old today. Ergo... Unlikely.
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(It actually grinds my gears that I learned the entire metric system in 5th grade and we didn't switch over. Except Celsius; the degrees are too big. You can have my F when you pry them from my 4 degree C hands!)
Why do you say it, I really don't get it?
IYKYN.
and
0.35 * 25,4 mm
respectively
3086 is 2×1543
the first number in this journey (which im not giving up on just yet) that is a double of a prime
https://bsky.app/profile/sadi-order.bsky.social/post/3losgj5n2a22v
Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3086#Transcript
..... bear that in mind next time I'm delivering a lecture on the cosmological contant (Λ).
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