Because Fuck You metric system

 

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How many corgis does that translate to…

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Shake it, don’t break it!

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Given the size of the average home I’d say that’s a pretty small unit.

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Hey, it’s not about the size of the unit, it’s about load-bearing capacity, cost, and availability due to supply chain constraints.

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One gigaton of snow roughly equates to one cubic kilometer of fresh water, which could completely fill the U.S. capitol building more than 2,200 times.

(source: AGU [American Geophysical Union] Newsroom, which was linked to by Gizmodo, which was linked to by @FGD135 )

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Milo also mentioned that the archeological compound was about “four football fields” :laughing:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaKrSgBkFHQ

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Boo-shul? Who TF says boo-shul? Yorkshire farmers, maybe?

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Is there a Yorkshire in the US? :laughing:

(for context, he was quoting an archeological journal from the beginning of 20th century)

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why is Milo dressed like Jason Mewes from Jay and Silent Bob?

Milo’s fkin’ weird, man…

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Would that be official city limits, or the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area, which stretches from SE Wisconsin to NW Indiana?

Never have I been more convinced that actual metric measurements would help!

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I was wondering the same myself.

Also wondering whether a Chicago-shaped iceberg would float

https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html

Kinda hard to draw with my finger on my phone.

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Good question!

Maybe?

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Still a pretty good attempt. I give it four stars.

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