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.
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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
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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
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I feel like there could be a community based on headlines like this.
Go make one!
Heavier than an African or an Asian elephant?
Laden or unladen?
I don't know that!
Well I don't know that!
Sounds like it was also heavier than a pickup truck and a tardigrade.
"Heavier than" is not an especially good metric. Especially when you're talking about something that's 1400 kg heavier.
It's an average elephant. Maybe there are elephants heavier than the haul
But they had to explain that in the article, which also makes it a bad metric. "This is heavier than X you don't know the weight of. By the way, this is how much X weighs on average." Maybe measure it against something people understand the weight of since they've been around them much more often. Like a car. Or maybe something they've even had experience moving like a fridge or a piano.
How many Olympic-size swimming pools would it fill?
Or how many Eiffel towers long it is when laid out end-to-end
I'll tell you if you give me the dimension of the pool in standard banana units.
For serious. These guys couldn't seize an elephant, pfft.
Oh, wait. Is this implying that being seized by this particular squad affects the elephant's weight?
What KINDS of drugs though?
An elephants worth of weed is way different from phanty fenty.
How many stones?
A large boulder (the sise of a tiny boulder)
More than a pebble, less than an asteroid.
How much is that in Libraries of Congress?
African elephant or Asian elephant?
Wow 300,000 ounces. Talk about a lifetime supply
Not for Charlie Sheen
But where do the Mexican Navy seize the elephant?
This is so sad.
Legalize it already.
It will make most "criminals" become friendly to the police and help them catch actual criminals.
If you were to lay it put in a football field how much would it cover? As an american having trouble comprehending this elephant comparison.
I thought we agreed to use rhinos as the measuring unit for drugs?
How many cubic elephants is your refrigerator? Is it 27millielephants?
I will need a banana for size reference
No can do, the elephant ate the banana
There is on the old place, bur you should make one here!
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