I don’t know who runs the Jerusalem Post, but they are constantly measuring asteroids passing near Earth against ridiculous things.
182 beavers - https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-754217
100 hot dogs - https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-749385
48 eggplants - https://www.jpost.com/science/article-740160
6 Darth Vaders (on Star Wars Day) - https://www.jpost.com/science/article-741979
That’s just a sample. They do it all the time.
Probably just to grab attention
Anything but metric
But metric can still be applied. Hear me out.
So a yard is roughly one meter. It means a kilo-yard is about one kilometer and a centi-yard is one centimeter. How many miles or inches that is, is a conversion problem within the imperial system.
In the same way, a quart is about one liter. Milli-quart is about one milliliters. Easy. How many gills those are is not our problem.
There is no immediate equivalent for weight, although a double-pound would be roughly one kilogram.
It’s almost like Imperial system units have all been borrowed from different measurement systems that should have nothing to do with each other. Tho I could get behind 12 inches in a foot, that seems nice to divide
