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- 11 days
True, quick math that’s 4225x heavier than pure uranium, but still 666x lighter than neutron star soup. No material holds together at that density without a stars worth of gravity
- wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding. Could you express that in approximate number of cans of Dr. Pepper?
- 11 days
you need the gravity of a star like Taylor Swift to hold a mass as small as Marco Rubio but as dense as R.F. Kennedy Jr.
- 11 days
It’s the size of a dr. Pepper and the weight of 3 baby elephants.
It’s also the size of a baby elephant foot and the weight of 728 cans of dr. Pepper.
- SpongyAneurysm@feddit.orgEnglish11 days
That’s fine and dandy, but what I really wanna know now is, to the size of how many Dr. Pepper cans can I compress 3 baby elephants and have that hold together?
- 11 days
3 baby elephants, each about 100 kg is 300 kilogram. Round to density of water, so say 300 liter and ignore the chunks. One can is 0.355 liter. Round to ⅓ liter. That makes 900 cans. About one pallet low stacked pallet.
- SpongyAneurysm@feddit.orgEnglish11 days
Thanks for spelling that out, but maybe I need to be more specific about the assignment. In your example the elephants still consist of elephant matter. I wanna know what happens, if we’re allowed to change that on a nuclear level, so shift some protons, neutrons (and whatever other particles, that I know nothing about) around. How many Dr. Pepper cans is the currently known limit of physics here?
- 11 days
Say we change the mass of elephants to osmium. That’s 41 liter or 123 cans. That fills up about half of the bottom of a pallet.
Say we chuck the elephants into Jupiter and let them sink to the core. That’s 27 liter or 80 cans. Roughly 3 cardboard trays of 24 cans each.
Say we chuck the elephants into the center of the sun. That’s 2 liter or 6 cans, so a six-pack.
If you use exotic matter things get silly. You’re not talking about cans anymore. 300 kilograms of neutronium is barey a micrometer in size. Black hole matter is smaller than a proton.
- ulterno@programming.devEnglish11 days
Say you had a year’s* worth of Dr. Pepper supplies jam-packed into a single can of Dr. Pepper.
* approximate values assuming 3 servings a day
- 11 days
NASA originally published that it was around 1000 pounds and two feet across. Then Jpost sensationalized it. A ball of iron that size would be about 1800 pounds.
11 daysSomethings amiss here, the article talks about a meteorite that broke up in earths atmosphere, and above there’s talk about mars
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The meme is fake. It’s one of those “breaking news” generated images and the “Channel 23” logo is just slapped on.
how is that possible, isnt the densest element like 22g/cm^3? i dont know how much 3 baby elephants weight but its definitely more
- 10 days
Technically ya just need some neutron degenerate matter, you can get way beyond that density. Yay!
- 11 days
As old as baby elephants, exactly.
Same species as baby elephants surprisingly.
Yesterday I searched for how much an acre is, only to find this: https://www.wagrown.com/what-does-an-acre-look-like
1,584 potatoes
The amount of potatoes needed to make a line from one end to the other end of an acre.And Wikipedia made it sound even funnier to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre
It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1⁄640 of a square mile, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare.
Or with rods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)
The ‘perfect acre’ is a rectangular area of 43,560 square feet, bounded by sides 660 feet (a furlong) long and 66 feet (a chain) wide (220 yards by 22 yards) or, equivalently, 40 rods by 4 rods. An acre is therefore 160 square rods or 10 square chains.
- 11 days
If you’ve ever played or watched cricket, which is a very imperial kind of game, then the pitch (the distance between the wickets) is exactly one chain, and the field (the whole playing ground) is typically one acre although it isn’t standardised.
Cricket ball is leather, about the size of your fist, and surprisingly heavy. A chain is about as far as you can throw such a ball over-arm, and an acre is about the circle of how far you can smack such a ball with a bat before it touches the ground.
- 11 days
Agreed, this seems like a 100% completely honest attempt to be a relatable reference and clearly has no humor injected into it at all.
edit: 1 acre is equivalent to 4 ‘roods’ lmao that’s wonderful.
- 11 days
So, 12oz can contains 355mL, which is 355cm^3
Okay so how much force is 3 baby elephants?
Yes, I’d try to estimate the density.
- 11 days
A baby elephant weighs about 90 to 120 kg at birth. So the density would be in the ballpark of almost 1000 g/cm³, while the densest element on earth is osmium at 22.570 g/cm³. Seems odd to me
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
Yeah, somebody fucked up the game of telephone.
hey AP, we found a super dense chunk of rock orbiting mars.
Channel 23 tim: hey I just saw a feed they had a super desnse chunk of rock orbiting Mars!
Channel 23 Fred: God DMANNIT timmy, I done tol you that our viewers ain’t gonna put up with no science bullshit. Now you tell me straight up, how this is important. Is it big? Is it heavy? is it comin for earth?
Channel 23 tim: it’s not very big, but it’s pretty heavy and it’s not coming for earth
Channel 23 Fred: I ain’t wastin no time on in then. If you can’t give me a size I can understant and tell me how heavy it is so I know why it matters, you can’t post it.
Channel 23 tim: It’s like a small car, and it weighs as much as a motorcycle.
Channel 23 Fred: That ain’t gonna get people to watch shit, here, it’s the size of a pop can, and weighs as much as a F-250…
Channel 23 Sally: You can’t just say it weighs as much as a Ford, they’re not sponsors. Let’s say it’s an elepnant.
Channel 23 Fred: naw, too fucking big they won’t get it
Channel 23 Sally: a baby elephant
Channel 23 Fred: you gotta think bigger call it 3…
Channel 23 tim: shipping it
- 11 days
Maybe it has the same volume as the real Dr. Pepper, but the graphic artist thought they meant a can. Easy mistake!
- 11 days
I’m confused.
Not from the mass or size.
But from exactly what it is doing to Mars?
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Product placement getting the bills paid without being excessively obnoxious–rare.
- Ariselas@piefed.caEnglish11 days
heavy would imply weight wouldn’t it? if they are all in orbit wouldn’t 10,000 baby elephants weigh the same as 3, the same weight as a football field, or an Olympic sized swimming pool, and the same as a single can of Dr Pepper?
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It could also imply mass which doesn’t change regardless of gravity.
Also being in orbit doesn’t significantly reduce the amount of gravity impacting the object. The reason astronauts feel weightless is because bring in orbit means they are moving fast enough to keep missing the object they are orbiting. So it isn’t a lack of gravity, it is constant free fall.
- 11 days
It’s not “Meteor the size of a Dr Pepper” but “A meteor The size of Dr Pepper” as in the whole company.
