It’s a baaa-sic unit of measurement.
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Sheep are an unit for velocity:
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That feels like a singularly useless measurement.
The native speed of sheep in vacuum is 0. They dead.
And if you’re just strapping them to a rocket, the technology changes, so the unit changes.
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I would counter that the maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum is approximated by c. Same as any other baryonic matter. But that’s just me. 
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Seconded: milk in bags in BC in 80s was definitely a thing. I grew up in interior BC.
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Super 8? Motel 6? Waldorf Astoria? George V?
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Monopoly?
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So… 1.45 gigaliters?
It’s weird that even advocates of metric seem to refuse to use metric prefixes as intended.
The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 150 gigameters. A typical dairy cow weighs about 1 megagram. A day is 86.4 kiloseconds long.
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See also the Gimli Glider.
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Cool article, but
“Perucetus could have weighed almost two blue whales, three Argentinosaurs (a giant sauropod dinosaur), over 30 African bush elephants and as many as 5,000 people,”
Or around 1000 South American tapirs.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/02/world/ancient-colossal-whale-perucetus-colossus-scn/index.html
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Towards a science of fuck you ISO!
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09636625231186782
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What a wordy paper. If you printed it out, it would cover an area the size of a hockey rink.
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