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> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold?? Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car".
Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement
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But everyone knows, by experience, what 3300 individual roughly one pound bags of sugar weighs and what sort of force is needed to hold it up. Mid sized car is ambiguous, and nobody saw anybody hold that up (seeing hulk doesn't count)
Do they? I don't recall ever seeing a bag of sugar in my life. I'm not a baker though so maybe that explains it. A car is more easier to picture for me.
The whole thing seems very confused. Anyway let’s build space elevator?
> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar What an odd example. A mid-sized car would have been much clearer.
But everyone knows, by experience, what 3300 individual roughly one pound bags of sugar weighs and what sort of force is needed to hold it up. Mid sized car is ambiguous, and nobody saw anybody hold that up (seeing hulk doesn't count)
How often has anyone ever seen 3300 bags of sugar together in their lives, do you think?
Limpet Radula is a badass name for a rock band
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Do they? I don't recall ever seeing a bag of sugar in my life. I'm not a baker though so maybe that explains it. A car is more easier to picture for me.
You must be from the US.
What else does sugar come in? If not bags? I don't think I've ever bought sugar in something other than a bag.
I wanted to see some pictures, this paper has good ones: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10332 If you put your finger in front of a garden slug it may try to eat it, it's a very odd sand-paper sensation but I never knew why.
"try"? If it's harder than your skin it means it did, not tried.