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.
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850m? What's m? That's not a SI unit (Stupid Imperial)
My bad, that is 18.5 Statues of Liberty, or 2 Empire State Buildings, or slightly less than 1 Texas.
Are those freedom units good enough?
"Slightly"
Amazingly, yes, all of those are actually helpful lmao
It's approximately 2789 freedom feet
You gotta give it to us in refrigerators or we're not gonna know what you're talking about.
I'm gonna be real with you, I don't know how big a narwhal is.
about 1/99th the size of the asteroid passing us rn.
Not to worry, here's gpt's answer:
To begin with, we need to know the average volume of a narwhal. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the average length of a male narwhal is about 16 feet (4.9 meters) and its weight is about 1,800 kg. The volume of a narwhal can be calculated by using the formula for the volume of a cylinder, where the radius is half of the length.
Volume of a cylinder = π × r^2 × h
Radius = length/2 = 4.9/2 = 2.45 meters
Height = 16 feet ≈ 4.9 meters
Volume of a narwhal = π × 2.45^2 × 4.9 ≈ 96.3 cubic meters
Next, we can estimate the volume of a banana. The volume of a banana may vary depending on its size and shape. For simplicity, let's assume that a medium-sized banana has a volume of 100 cubic centimeters (cc) or 0.1 liters.
Now, we can divide the volume of a narwhal by the volume of a banana to get an estimate of the number of bananas needed to fill the narwhal's volume.
Number of bananas = Volume of narwhal / Volume of banana
Number of bananas ≈ 96,300,000 cc / 100 cc = 963,000 bananas
Therefore, it would take around 963,000 bananas to fill the volume of one narwhal, although this estimate may not be very accurate due to the assumptions and approximations made.
Can someone convert that to bananas for me
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.
I went to http://bananaforscale.info which returned 4775.281 bananas. That's similar to your last number
4722.22 bananas
4775.281 bananas
Mental note: GPT-4 has a comparatively big measuring banana
Thank you good human, I now have an excellent, exactly approximate idea of how big the 99 narwhals meteor is. 👏🎉🏆
Colossal banana the size of 99 narwhals to pass Earth Thursday - NASA
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.
How many half giraffes?
Narwhals sure are an interesting unit of measurement.
99 narwhals? How many football fields is that? And bananas? If we stop using standard units I’m lost xD
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 them
Thanks! At least something we can al understand!
@ivlarac pretty much just coming here to ask about units of measurement too.... I think TheRegister has a converter....
Does someone feels the courage to open /m/anythingbutmetric?
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.
Just under 40,000 narwhals, assuming a narwhal has the mass of 1600 kg and is 5 meters long.
Is.. is that a safe assumption...?
Narwhal for scale.
That’s going to be quite the commotion.
Not surprising, that's a pretty small explosion for a day in Texas.
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.
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