Titanic asteroid the size of 84 orcas to pass Earth on Monday - NASA
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Americans will use anything as a measurement unit except the SI, it seems
Seriously, I'm American but I still know how long a meter is. Why not just say 'an 830 meter wide asteroid'? Now I keep imagining a meteor in the shape of a giant whale.
Orca is a bit obscure way to measure something. What would this be strawberries so we're all on the same page?
How many strawberries in a banana?
4 metric or 5 short strawberries
Terrible headline due to scaling factors. Is it a "killer asteroid" since we're measuring in "killer whales"? Do we expect it to break in half and sink into the atmosphere Titanic-ally? Does someone have an orcastick, which is like a yardstick but measures orca lengths instead of yards?
hell yeah we should measure every object by how many orcas it is
I mean, I know Orcas are big, but I wouldn't call 84 of them mooshed together "titanic"
But how many washing machines is it?