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| Asteroid the size of 112 camels to pass [thru the eye of a needle] Earth Wednesday - NASA |
| 2023-03-09 |
Not an Imperial measure. Certainly not Metric. Maybe Islamocentric? |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #22 #17 for late SOTD! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-03-09 19:01 |
| #21 Questions from moonlit caravanserai... "O Allah, what part is one camel (or similar quadruped mammal) Of a caravan, please? Does the dog include fleas? Will this system our empire entrammel?" |
| Posted by: Herb Panda2732 2023-03-09 18:53 |
| #20 re#19: That implies a very high density, does it not? (Four baby elephants in a corgi volume?) I think this whole thing depends on the velocity of a fully laden european swallow vs an african one. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-03-09 17:16 |
| #19 a meteor around the size of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and the total weight of four baby elephants struck the Earth in Texas. Everything is bigger in Texas. Well, nearly everything. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2023-03-09 15:07 |
| #18 #3 Lions Gate has the best falafel stand |
| Posted by: 746 2023-03-09 13:16 |
| #17 If we could put Planet Stacy in orbit, would her own gravitational field be enough to induce a deviation in the asteroids flight path? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-03-09 12:33 |
| #16 "Asteroid 2023 DQ could be as wide as 270 meters, which is the combined height of over 112 Dromedary camels. NASA says it will pass Earth on Shushan Purim." J Post very funny article |
| Posted by: Flith Sleating9079 2023-03-09 11:29 |
| #15 "Asteroid 2023 DQ could be as wide as 270 meters, which is the combined height of over 112 Dromedary camels. NASA says it will pass Earth on Shushan Purim." J Post |
| Posted by: Flith Sleating9079 2023-03-09 11:26 |
| #14 /\ She can't be pushed, but she can be rolled. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-03-09 11:13 |
| #13 The best research on her says she is a hair under 5’3″ and 254 lbs. but can go as high as 285 lbs. after a holiday eating binge. Now you're talking about my sister. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-03-09 11:08 |
| #12 "The Bactrian camel is 10 to 11.5 feet long, 5.2 to 5.9 feet tall at shoulder height, and weighs 990 to 1,100 pounds. Meanwhile, the dromedary camel is 7.2 to 11.2 feet long, 5.9 to 6.6 feet tall at the shoulder height, and weighs 880 to 1,320 pounds." The best research on her says she is a hair under 5’3″ and 254 lbs. but can go as high as 285 lbs. after a holiday eating binge. So, 4 to 6 Abrahms per camel depending on the Holiday season. equals between 448 and 672 camels.... thata a big asteroid |
| Posted by: 746 2023-03-09 10:37 |
| #11 I'm just saying that's pretty vague for such modern times. Is it a ball of camels, or an asteroid 112 camels nose to tail across? Dromedary or Bactrian? How long since they last drank? For those of us who have been to the moon and prefer the more accurate American units, please provide the translation into Llamas, or Incan Imperial Alpaca. Sad really. Entire knowledge of human civilization available on our phone, and instead of learning about this, we are instead using them for numerical equation puns and memorizing pi to a thousand place. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-03-09 10:35 |
| #10 Shouldn't this be published on April 1st? |
| Posted by: Phineque Elminter7620 2023-03-09 10:23 |
| #9 I'm with swksvol. Would an actual number be all that difficult? I mean you guys got computers and all. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-03-09 10:22 |
| #8 So tired of people talking emoji. I mean, is this diameter, circumference, volume, cross-section area. Size, really? Let's get accurate here people! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-03-09 10:02 |
| #7 I can convert - 112 camels = 10 Abrams Units. It's fackin' yuuuuge! |
| Posted by: Raj 2023-03-09 09:23 |
| #6 How many gumballs is that? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2023-03-09 08:02 |
| #5 So, NASA is still working it's "make muzz feel good about themselves" mission. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-03-09 07:35 |
| #4 Forget the dog to camel conversion ratio, how many Abrams to camels is what should be discussed (since previous Rantburg mass/ volume math sessions have used the ‘Abrams lump’ as a standard). |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2023-03-09 07:29 |
| #3 FYI: The Biblical 'eye of the needle' was the narrowest of gates that led into the city of Jerusalem. |
| Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2023-03-09 07:13 |
| #2 How many dogs is equivalent to 112 camels? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2023-03-09 06:19 |
| #1 missed earth by more than the distance to the moon |
| Posted by: lord garth 2023-03-09 00:46 |