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> not a spoonful, but the same weight as a plastic spoon

oh



- There is a horrifying 512-ounce version that they call Child size. How is this a Child-sized soda?

- Well, it's roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied.


That's both a misleading headline and a really odd unit of measurement. So odd that I wouldn't be surprised if the US adopted it as the official unit of measurement of microplastics (I kid, as an American).


How many Bald Eagle Per Football Fields would that amount to?


I find this hilarious. Why would they choose such a misleading unit


Isn't it about the same?

How big is a spoon, anyway?


do we need a unit conversion for how many spoonfuls of plastic are in a plastic spoon?? seems like it might be important for this article.

Well article says a teaspoon has 7g mass, and just spitballin here but I'd say a plastic spoon has about 1g/cm^3 density. And there are 4.83cm^3 in a teaspoon. So I guess in fact there are 1.44 teaspoons of teaspoon in the brain. Or would that be 1.44 tsp^2...?

But I'm an American and I have at least 3 imperial teaspoons of microplastic in my brain or gosh darnit I'm 2 bald eagles short of a touch down. If you know what I'm sayin.[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42958104


That's not great


So more




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