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kebab@endlesstalk.org to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine

www.independent.co.uk

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Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine

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kebab@endlesstalk.org to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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MRI magnets are strong enough to toss a wheelchair across a room
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    9 fucking kilograms!? For my fellow Americans, that’s almost 20 pounds!

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      Can you convert that to tennis balls? I can’t do this math on my own

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        Somewhere between 150 and 160, depending on the tennis balls. Hope this helps

        https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=9kg+%2F+mass+of+a+tennis+ball

        Edit: Additionally, that’s about 63½ European swallows, assuming an average weight of 5 ounces. Given that a European swallow must beat its wings 43 times per second to maintain airspeed velocity, it’d be a proper racket.

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        Those numbers are from monty python and the holy grail and are very wrong. I am spreading misinformation online.

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          And if it’s an African swallow?

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            Not covered in the film and I refuse to get my information anywhere other than Monty Python. The mass of an african swallow is therefore unknowable.

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              It’s a fair cop

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                Society is to blame

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          I’m upset that I can only like this once.

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        The only units I understand are bananas or bald eagles. Please adjust accordingly

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        It’s seventy-nine sticks of butter, plus a pat or two

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          Aka 6 “knobs,” according to Gordon Ramsey.

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            aka “the bare minimum”

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        I used robots and the answer was 160 tennis balls, which is actually much less than I expected.

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      I feel like someone should have noticed. I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen someone wearing a twenty pound necklace.

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      I always knew Roughneck McGee would meet a tragic end. Ironically he wasn’t even wearing his BIG necklace.

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