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Anything But Metric

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Americans will use anything but metric

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Americans will use anything other than the metric system

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[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is obviously wrong? Three baby elephants inside a soda can means about 650,000kg/m³ if I haven't screwed up the thumbnail estimates. IIRC the densest element we know is osmium and that's "only" about 25,000kg/m³ (give or take some since it's been ages since I learned anything like this).

Depends on your size of soda can and baby elephant, I guess.