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> The plan called for the Navy to sneak a nuclear-powered submarine, nearly two football fields long, into the waters off North Korea and then deploy a small te
by nython 1y ago
> The plan called for the Navy to sneak a nuclear-powered submarine, nearly two football fields long, into the waters off North Korea and then deploy a small team of SEALs in two mini-subs, each about the size of a killer whale
The lengths some people willing to go just not to use the metric system
- marcosdumay 1y agoA football field is close to 100m, independently of whether people manage the balls with their feet or with their hands.
- ProAm 1y ago100 yds :)
- marcosdumay 1y ago1 yard is ~0.9 m
- ProAm 1y ago1 foot is 0.3048 m
- fnordpiglet 1y agoAnd killer whales are about the size of mini subs whether people steer them with their feet or hands too!
- neilv 1y agoPeople died under troubling circumstances. Hopefully the strange quirks of the news org's writing style don't derail discussion.