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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 164 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine shipping this tiny little box and it weighs 60 pounds. Poor mailman.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last package of the da... Yo wtf?!?

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's the 32 KG mop all over again

Note: Above video is marketing for an exercise plan, but it's also funny to watch occasionally when he has new episodes. As far as I know, the weights are real, but they're always loaded funny in the videos. Max plates visually for the weight the dudes are lifting

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

"I have to clean here!" - lifts fat barbell, that some steroid man just lifted with both hands, with one hand and moves it elsewhere.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Not to be a killjoy but your basic mailman has a pretty low weight limit on the parcels they take.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 150 points 1 year ago (2 children)

USPS GOAT. Fuck privatización.

[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 89 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But sometimes I have mildly inconveniencing experiences with the postal service in my extremely rural town that require me to navigate my extremely rural town's nearly non-existent public services so we should absolutely surrender complete control to Amazon

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 59 points 1 year ago

Private companies love the heartland and will work out of patriotism even if rural routes are less profitable! 🤡

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We recently moved in a very rural area. The rural carrier for our new route gave us a form to fill out, and by the end of the week we were receiving mail. UPS and FedEX on the other hand, wouldn't deliver to us for a month. USPS will carry our packages up our driveway to our steps; UPS and FedEX throw them in the ditch by the mailbox.

Also, did you know you can buy stamps, cards, and envelopes directly from the rural carrier? Here's a fun quote from the rural customer registration form:

Rural carriers maintain a supply of stamps, cards, and envelopes for sale. Additionally, your carrier will accept Certified Mail™, Registered Mail™, insure packages, and prepare money orders. Generally, rural carriers can extend practically all services available at a Post Office. Please purchase a sufficient supply of stamps and affix proper postage on all outgoing mail.

Imagine how bleak things would be if Amazon was running the show. USPS is truly the best

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[–] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently neither of you are aware of how dense I am. ;)

[–] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But do you fit into that box? 🤔

[–] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nothing one of those fancy new blenders couldn't handle.

[–] Zabjam@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

I have mixed feelings about this.

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[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

first, ya cut a hole in that box...

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[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 93 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait until I fill that box with quark-gluon plasma.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'll go one better.
A (non-spinning uncharged) black hole with diameter 1+5/8th inches (so it fits in the box) has a mass of about 2.3 earths.

(Near as I can tell QGP filling the whole box is around a ten billionth of that.)

Of course the box would Very quickly no longer be outside the black hole. QGP would also cause the box to no longer be a container in short order. To put it mildly.

[–] BennyInc@feddit.org 24 points 1 year ago

It would also reach its destination very quickly. Or rather the other way around. Free delivery.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago

at a typical temperature and pressure, sure.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s because all the packages have the same domestic weight limit.

Seems silly, but makes sense in the context.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the case for most "Dumb laws": there's an outlier that becomes kinda silly, but it's not really worth the effort to change.

I saw one "It's illegal to hunt Blue Whales in Idaho". Because it's illegal to hunt endangered species in Idaho, and Blue Whales are endangered, not because legislators were super concerned about saving Idaho's whale population.

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[–] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

He said "physically" which is wrong because Neutronium. What he possibly meant was "practically" in which Osmium would be the only element you can practically fit in the box since it isn't possible to synthesize neutronium at that amount or handle that much safely.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If mailing 70 lbs of unstable particles that can't exist outside of a lab is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No you mean theoretical. As neutronium is a theoretical substance. To our knowledge there's no way to find it outside of neuron stars. It is therefore physically impossible, within our current state of knowledge.

It's highly unlikely, bordering on theoretically impossible to assume that mankind will be able to synthesize enough to fill a cardboard box with. Then the practical side says even if that was possible, there would probably no way a cardboard box could contain that (and a plethora of other practical impossibilities).

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could you create a device that would compress some substance to the extent it would reach this weight or is that impossible?

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Such devices exist, namely stars. Neutron stars are theorized to have neutronium at their core, essentially a soup of neutrons so densely packed that nothing else fits between them - in order words, the densest theoretical material (osmium is the densest material found on Earth).

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I guess I forgot to say it needs to fit in the package lol. I know it’s possible in extreme environments but can you create such an environment in this package is the question.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just toss a few teaspoons of black hole in there.

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe that would be some form of fusion

[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Good news, it's 20-30 years away!

[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you can balloon the box out a ways to get more volume

[–] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The surface area of the box is about 135 inches. If this surface area were spread over a sphere, it would have a diameter of about 6.5 inches and a volume of nearly 150 cubic inches (nearly twice the volume of the uninflated box!). 150 cubic inches of osmium weighs about 120lbs.

So, indeed you could exceed the weight limit of the box by ballooning it out and filling it with something that's at least 7/12ths as dense as osmium (or a little more dense than lead).

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Neutronium... I am having early 2000s trivia website flashbacks! Wasn't a teaspoon of that stuff several tons or something?

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[–] Hupf@feddit.org 8 points 1 year ago

At what velocity are the box's dimensions and effective mass determined?

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