• nosuchanon@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Y’all failed to realize that Americans are math, science, and just regular plain sorts of illiterate. So if you want them to understand anything, you have to give it to them in units they can physically see or common household objects.

    Just think of it as trying to explain a difficult concept to a toddler or maybe at best a six-year-old. That’s what it feels like talking to the American public.

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    8 hours ago

    It’s not “Meteor the size of a Dr Pepper” but “A meteor The size of Dr Pepper” as in the whole company.

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    9 hours ago

    Most people probably know how big a pop can is, and understand that even baby elephants are pretty heavy. It gets the point across better than “A meteor with a volume of approximately one third of a litre and a mass of approximately 350 kilograms”.

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      7 hours ago

      But it’s so ludicrous it doesn’t pass even the most basic smell test.

      What’s a baby elephant weight? 100lbs., right out my butt. (Google says 200 at birth.) You can’t pack 300lbs. of anything into a pop can. Nothing in this solar system.