Drugs haul heavier than an elephant seized by Mexican navy
news.sky.com
A drugs haul weighing more than an elephant has been seized in the Mexican navy's biggest ever drugs bust.
The operation saw 23 people arrested off the country's southwest coast.
The haul weighed some 8,400kg - an elephant can weigh up to 6,000kg on average, according to the WWF.
"This represents the largest quantity of drugs seized in a maritime operation, without precedent in the history of the institution," the navy said in a statement.
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Ah yes, the widely recognized drugs weight unit, the elephant.
Back when I was into the whole drug scene (or elephanting as we'd call it), I'd normally ask my dealer for 250 nanoelephants of coke and party all night.
Properly speaking, there is no such thing as nanoelephants. That's just an informal unit used by coke dealers for marketing purposes. Elephants are obviously an imperial unit, and "nano-" is an SI/metric prefix. You have to break it down or use fractions. There's 103 golden retrievers per elephant, 14 footballs to the the golden retriever, 9 eight-track cassettes per football, and 525 liberal tears per cassette. You should have been using liberal tears to be scientific.
You forgot the standard football field unit, we use it to measure the space station.
Are we talking metric golden retrievers or imperial golden retrievers?
How many liberal tears in a banana? For scale purposes of course.
Imperial units are all defined in terms of SI units now. A liberal tear is conveniently defined as 989µâ. Making one elephant roughly 6738.5â.
According to WolframAlpha, the volume of a banana is 124mâ. So I believe there are 125.4 tears per banana.
Israel being awful aside, the Jerusalem Post has a very amusing history of comparing space rocks to random things as they fly by the Earth, illustrating how silly such things are.
Asteroid the size of 543 McDonald's French fries to pass Earth Friday - https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-792933
Giant asteroid the size of 770 lions to pass Earth Thursday, June 27 - https://www.jpost.com/science/article-807825
AI spots huge asteroid the size of 182 beavers that humans missed - https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-754217
Asteroid the size of eight Taylor Swifts to pass Earth Tuesday - https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-785118
Giant asteroid the size of 1,000 capybaras to pass Earth Tuesday - https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-761322
Asteroid the size of 48 eggplants to pass Earth Tuesday - https://www.jpost.com/science/article-740160
It seemed like they were doing one a week for a while.
Edit: forgot my favorite- Asteroid the size of 16.5 John Cenas to pass Earth on Friday, March 15 https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-791712