The armadillo standard is more understandable than that meter nonsense.

I knew that meter folderol wouldn't last.

Given the state of the human race today. I hope that something nearly as big as the Moon hits and soon. The CCP and the leftists need to be wiped off the face of the planet. The rest of us will be collateral damage, but it will be worth it. God needs to start over. Maybe it will turn out better the next time.

"Anything but metric."

Armadillo Aerospace was a small space startup located in Mesquite, TX. They were a group of nerds designing, building and successfully flying prototype reusable vertical launch/landing rockets way back in 2010. They did it all on a shoestring budget.

https://youtu.be/bL2suXb4Ddo

Up North, we measure things in beavers.

Asteroids are measured in Armadillos?
Geez, everyone knows that.
SMOD? How many Armadillos?

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Old and busted: Pico di gallo, a tasty condiment.
New hotness: Picogallo, a trillionth of a rooster.

I have never in my life seen a meter-long armadillo and I've seen a bunch.

North America used to have armadilli of this size. The incoming Siberians found them slow, fat, and tasty. (They didn't have the Hansen's then.)

But not in the last 25 years. I was coming back from my honeymoon, driving somewhere and I saw an armadillo rooting by the side of the road. I stopped, my wife ran back and was trying to grab it by the tail when it leaped about 4 ft in the air. My wife jumped too. It was pretty funny.

Nope, you missed out again - now it's "platypus", of which the plural is I just don't care.

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"Wombat" is metric, "armadillo" is English.

Maybe the armadillo is a new latinx unit of measure.

How about those astrophysicists? What cards they are!

A Stacy Abrams size would be a cause for concern.

Nine-banded Armadillos? Feh! I only measure in three-banded armadillos, the armadillos that can roll into a soccer ball!

Nine-banded armadillos are Texas truck mines, waiting on the road to perfectly time their defensive behavior jump to enter into the fan housing of your average (older) truck. Such a mess.

Luckily more trucks are using fan shrouds so the effectiveness of armadillo suicide soldiers is less effective.

At least they used metric armadillos.

Alligators

So the size of two basketball courts. A drive around it would take 3 minutes on a mobility scooter.

Wanna bet?

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Glenn
Armadillo is a measure of distance. Wombats are a measure of mass!

Is that a 33 on the Nigel Tufnel scale?

Does this mean everyone is now exposed to armadillos so knows what they are?

Okay, I understand--sort of--the hatred for the White Man's Imperial/US measuring system, but have they now ditched the cgs system, too?

OTOH, this ought to make those conversions for your Mars lander more interesting.

Frankly, I prefer the Greater Kudu measurement standard.

33 aUs. Like T vs. t for baking soda.

One ton Vanilla Extract...

Probably excessive, but requires testing.

Wombat is an Aussie recoilless rifle. Armadillos are cute, and have reached Chicago suburbs.

33 Armadillos? Why, that's almost a million Monarch butterflies!

God measured in cubits. It's saddening to see how far we have regressed.

I like your style.

Americans will do anything to avoid using metric units.

This is NASA. What makes you think any Americans were involved?

How much is that in Imperial Dishwasher units?

For those unfamiliar with the armadillo standard, that's approximately 20.56645910447761 Smoots.

Not to be confused with the Imperial Smooch.

Are eight-banded armadillos a different size?

They are all uniform to 3 decimal places.

sorry.... 35 meters does not equal 33 armadillos . . . on average I'd same more like 38 to 39 armadillos to 35 meters figuring a meter's just a tad longer than a yard.

Maybe they counted the tail.

Yeah, I'm counting the tail too. Most of them aren't a yard long.

Americans aren't the only crazy ones.
The Vietnamese measure money in Dongs.

One US dollar is worth about 23000 Vietnamese Dongs......

Vietnamese Finance Minister, Bao Ding, is advocating a 100 for 1 reduction, due to inflation. Thus, the rate will be 1 dollar for 23 Ding Dongs...( I know, it's bad...lol)

Ho ho

Would that length be a standard marsupial Wombat or a Hodaka Combat Wombat?

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They did a previous one (a month or so ago) in alligators.

Someone there has a sense of humor