Crabs can grow much bigger than cats. Some grow to span 13 cl[1]
corgi-lengths (using imperial corgi-lengths, naturally) ↩︎
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Man, could make pasta for a big family with one of those…
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JP must have a burger-joint descriptive-size section in their style manual.
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Even the National Weather Service can play the “but not in metric” game with the best of them. Here they give three measurements for a hailstone, and not a millimeter to be seen between any of them.
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So is that American, Imperial, and Canadian measurements?
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hockey puck = Canadian measurement.
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Interesting that they use metres in this 1962 film about a nuclear test.
Goes to show that the current insistence on other units is just a sign of insecurity. At the height of the American century they didn’t care.
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I suspect it came during the period of the cold war when the USA defined itself as everything the USSR wasn’t. It’s easy to argue that the establishment clause was broken in the frenzy to define the USA as not atheist
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But the USSR used metres
ETA: oh, I see, you mean that happened after this film was released
Exactly, so my thesis is that the USA went heavy on feet and inches in the McCarthy period, later than this vid
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Yeah, see my edit above. I eventually got it. Though technically the McCarthy era was before this 1962 test
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Yeah, I think I misread the date as 52 initially. Shrug
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Nuff’ said.
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During the making of the primordial black holes, another type of previously unseen black hole must have formed as a kind of byproduct, according to the study. These would have been even smaller — just the mass of a rhino, condensed into less than the volume of a single proton.
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White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) or black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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I’m nearly one hectopercent sure that Coelodonta antiquitatis should be the full-on-the-nose answer to this.
Or maybe not.
I’m taking a leap of faith out, shall I?
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behold, the magnificent rhinoceroo!
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It’s usually sufficient to remember that it’s three kilderkins to the hogshead, and two hogsheads to a butt. Everything else is simple division.
I personally use the furlong-firkin-fortnight system of weights and measures.
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