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What the fuck is "half a pickup truck" for a measure
Americans will use anything other than the metric system.
As an american, I am 100% onboard on switching entirely to measuring things in terms of pickup trucks.
- Preheat oven to 1 pickup truck
- Bake for 1 pickup truck
F-350°F for F-150 minutes.
I think this could be an untapped cookbook market. Make it look like a shop manual and I’m in.
Since most automobiles are water-cooled, the pickup truck temp is probably about 110 f / 43 c, so you'd want to preheat to 3 1/2 pickup trucks.
Similarly, since the mean life of trucks is probably 20 years, we'd measure casual time in a subdivisions of 175,320 hours / 10,519,200 minutes. One picotruck would be 1/10th of a minute, so you want to bake for 300 pico-trucks
We will of course maintain this system once trucks become 50-year lived semi-autonomous drones that never get over 35 c, because the one constant in defining units is that rejiggijng definitions is preferred to technical precison.
Your oven will preheat in about 5 minutes, which means it's heading at 3pickup trucks per 50 picotrucks, or, once you reduce the units, 60 billion.
This recipe serves 2-3 pickup trucks
This is a Canadian publication.
EDIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narwhal
The Narwhal is a Canadian investigative online magazine that focuses on environmental issues.[1][2]
yeah, we have fucking idiots who have no idea what a kilogram is.
Maybe if we tricked them into saying, like, "as heavy as a three hundred kilogram box of bricks"
I don't mind the "size of common everyday thing" for a news article. It gives an easy to understand measure of the scale.
It's the "half" part that is infuriating. Like, you couldn't just pick another common object of the right size? Like, I'm pretty sure you could just say "a sedan" and be pretty close to the size. Is this just AI writing titles?
Just another method of getting clicks. Writing stupid titles like "half a pickup truck sized" so people click it to understand what the fuck they mean.
14 fridges
I don't know why that's more frightening
Edit: I realized it's childhood trauma.
Billy?
Two of them is roughly the size of a pickup truck...
Like, it's volume, they could say X gallons, but it would be hard for people to visualize. So people use an example most readers would be familiar with.
Have you honestly never wondered why journalists use random things? Or has no one taken the time to answer before?
It's been common literally for centuries before either of us were born, but most likely all of human existence. Just with animals like buffalo instead of pickup trucks.
You know what is roughly half the size of an American pickup truck and very common? A sedan. Like a regular sized car.
The annoying thing isn't using a common object to show scale. It's that they are cutting it in half. Like, you have other whole objects to choose from. It kind of ruins the point.
That's what frustrates me about the title at least.
That half giraffe really killed me.
You know what is roughly half the size of an American pickup truck and very common? A sedan. Like a regular sized car.
Oh ok...
Seems like you have two problems:
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You have no idea how big an American pickup truck is
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Instead of asking questions, you make assumptions and hope someone teaches you
One is a much bigger problem than the other, I wish you best of luck with both tho.
Mods want to explain why linking carsized.com and telling a commenter they are being pretentious gets a comment removed by mods?
Edit: Maybe it's my mobile app? When someone blocks you maybe it's confusing the comment thread? Idk.
Americans will use literally anything except the metric system 😔
A normal car.
How awesome would it be for Donald Trump, Joe Rogan, Dana White, and Elon Musk himself to get smashed by a Musk satellite during a photo op in the octagon at the White House UFC fight.
If that happened, you could not convince me that we aren’t all extras in Idiocracy 2.
I mean I’m drawing on other peoples comedic talent
falling from the the sky and burning is a good thing, bigger concern is them staying up there for too long
falling from the the sky and burning is a good thing
Jury is still out on this one.
“We’re really changing the composition of the stratosphere into a state that we’ve never seen before,” said John Dykema, an applied physicist at SEAS, who warns that scientists today poorly understand many of the impacts.
falling from the sky onto things is a problem tho
communication satellites are low earth orbit to reduce latency, that means +25000 km/h velocity to sustain orbit, and would also have a very shallow entry angle, that combination means total vaporization
Low earth orbit is most survivable reentry trajectory… coming in at a higher angle significantly increases the heating.
As was always the plan for these satellites.
The article raises a vague concern about Kessler syndrome. This is exactly why these satellites are designed to deorbit once their useful lifespan is finished. I don't see what the point of this article is at all.
Part of the plan, sure, but that doesn't mean it's a good plan. They don't have control of where the debris lands, and Starlink doesn't take responsibility for cleanup when it lands on others' property.
The debris will be microscopic. It won't "land" anywhere noticeable.
The fine particulate matter may not be great for the ozone layer, but it's actually pretty negligible compared to all of the other pollution that we're not addressing either. That doesn't justify the pollution, but hopefully it helps contextualize it.
I don't understand what kind of capitalist pig you need to be to allow private companies access to low orbit.
just some random capitalist here
Is it regulated? What's stopping me from putting up a satellite?
Gravity
That's the apple thing right? I'm sure I can figure it out if I put my mind to it.
yo momma would give you such a smacking
That's a risk I'm willing to take.
It's impossible to regulate space. Even if your government put restrictions on putting things in orbit, the company could just launch under the flag of somewhere else. Blanket banning of commercial space programs would require a universal treaty or would lead to an act of war. Im not saying the US shouldn't try and do something about space trash, but it's not as simple as "just ban corporations from space"
Space is extremely regulated, SpaceX just gets permits approved to do anything they want because they're extremely cooperative with the US military and CIA.
Rocket Lab is a private rocket company that launches from New Zealand, but part of the company is in the US so they still have to get an FAA license to launch from any country. No matter where SpaceX goes they would need FAA and FCC licensing.
There is like 10 launch site in the world. The fuck we can't regulate that ?!
We simply don't want to.
Both construction and launch facilities are highly specialized and expensive, there's a reason only a handful of countries have them. You can't just ship your rocket to Micronesia and launch from a grassy field
You can't?
FINE! I'LL JUST GO HOME THEN!
If you split it this way you end up with more than half of the weight, you need to split it down the middle through front and rear bumpers.
naa. your mom is still on the pass side.
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