• OfCourseNot@fedia.io
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        I thought the same, ~500kg of mass in the volume of a Corgi, about 0.015 m^3, is around 33.3g/cm^3 (4 times the density of iron, 3 times that of lead, and 1.5 times that of gold). But after going to the article they say the ‘diameter’ was the length of a corgi so it would be 0.113 m^3, with a density of 4.4g/cm^3. Which is what you could expect of something made of iron and rock.

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    Four baby elephants? How many baby elephants does it take to make one adult elephant? This leaves me with more questions than answers…

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      I came here for that weird way of measuring. Of all the things we stumble upon in our daily life they choose 4 baby elephants for this comparison!!

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    Do all Americans have a good sense of how much a baby elephant weighs? My impression is just a vague “it’s heavy, though less so than an adult elephant, which is really heavy”