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.
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 989µℓ. Making one elephant roughly 6738.5ℓ.
According to WolframAlpha, the volume of a banana is 124mℓ. 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-740160It 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
Anything but Metric
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
This is so sad.
Legalize it already.
It will make most “criminals” become friendly to the police and help them catch actual criminals.
But where do the Mexican Navy seize the elephant?
How many cubic elephants is your refrigerator? Is it 27millielephants?
I thought we agreed to use rhinos as the measuring unit for drugs?
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.
