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.
99 narwhals? How many football fields is that? And bananas? If we stop using standard units I’m lost xD
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.
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Thank you good human, I now have an excellent, exactly approximate idea of how big the 99 narwhals meteor is. 👏🎉🏆
Does someone feels the courage to open /m/anythingbutmetric?
Not surprising, that’s a pretty small explosion for a day in Texas.
I’m gonna be real with you, I don’t know how big a narwhal is.
The narwhal bacons at midnight 🤪
Not no more it ain’t
How many half giraffes?
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.
