How much does a metric shit-ton weigh?
How 'bout it's volume?
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How much does a metric shit-ton weigh?
How 'bout it's volume?
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A metric ton of shit weighs 2204 standard, or Imperial, pounds. Call it 2200lbs.
The volume would depend on the animal and its immediately preceding diet, I would assume.
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Is there something full of shit you need emptying Rich?
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Haha. Wasn't sure if you were joking or seriously wondering about the metric system?
... I'll bite though... a lot of the metric system seems to have been based on keeping things simple and using multiplications of 10 or 0.1. The standards are generally based on somewhat known items like the length of a meter or weight of a kilogram. And going from weight to volume or length was meant to be easier to understand. 1 kilogram of water at a standard temperature and pressure is a volume equal to 1 litre. And 1,000 litres is equal to one cubic meter. That same water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius and boils at 100 degrees C. As things get bigger, you'll see them scaled up using kilo for 1,000, centi for 100 or mega for 1,000,000. Conversely, getting smaller by 1,000 (or 0.001 rather) is milli, nano, pico, etc. Just about all units can be derived from the basics like grams, meters, seconds, Newtons, and what not to get acceleration or velocity. Ok, enough of that... lol
I thought this thing was cool to show you the scale of the universe idea and how big or small certain units are. It's not solely metric system applicable here of course.
It's called The Scale of the Universe and the link is here: http://htwins.net/ (as I can't upload an Excel file here apparently, or a big one I guess).
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I was just joking..hahaha!
I'm a big fan of the Metric system; Base 10 like you said, helluva lot simpler than the ridiculous U.S Standard system. I think we'd be converted if it wasn't for my Dad's generation hitting the panic button back when I was in grade school and we were supposed to convert.
Metric System is Base 10
Our money is counted in Base 10
We weigh & measure in Base #&(^@_)(!$&. and claim the Metric system is too hard...LOL!
Scale of the Universe thing is cool - wow, my head hurts now....yeow!
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lol, don't worry... a lot of the world is waiting and wondering when that will happen as well.
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