alt Hacker News> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar
Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold??
Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car".
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whistles
3.3 kilopounds? That's a lot
more importantly: how many kilos of feathers versus how many kilos of steel can it hold?
Needs to be 3,300 bags of something I care about. Otherwise you are talking about nonsense or voodoo.
whenever i see things like this i think its a tongue-in-cheek joke
The main question is how many American football fields is that
The crazy thing is that it is also equivalent to 33,000 0.1 pound bags of sugar.
How about
> 10x stronger than the jaw of a dog
> 20x stronger than a human jaw
> as strong as the jaws of a great white shark
?
> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar
Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?
"A modern passenger car" varies widely depending on what locale the reader is in. A passenger car in Jakarta is not at all the same as a passenger car in Los Angeles.
Can we just use Kilograms?
It’s more like half a modern passenger car these days.
because as a reader, bags of sugar are more engaging to me than bags of concrete.
Staff Sgt. Sykes: [Sgt. Sykes is directing the recruits on how to judge distances] You take what you know, and then you multiply. Please don't use your dicks. They're too small, and I can't count that high. I don't wanna hear, "400,000 inches."
-Jarhead
I noticed that too. I feel like this might be a new way of laundering AI written text, just provide the quote verbatim as if the they believe it was actually written by the author.
Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement