Pricefield | Lemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
@[email protected] to Not The [email protected]English • 6 days ago

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

www.independent.co.uk

external-link
message-square
258
fedilink
611
external-link

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

www.independent.co.uk

@[email protected] to Not The [email protected]English • 6 days ago
message-square
258
fedilink
MRI magnets are strong enough to toss a wheelchair across a room
  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    67•5 days ago

    9 fucking kilograms!? For my fellow Americans, that’s almost 20 pounds!

    • GladiusB
      link
      fedilink
      English
      26•5 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        25•
        edit-2
        5 days ago

        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.

        Tap for spoiler

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

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          5•5 days ago

          And if it’s an African swallow?

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            12•
            edit-2
            5 days ago

            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.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              4•5 days ago

              It’s a fair cop

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                3•5 days ago

                Society is to blame

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          4•5 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        6•5 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        10•
        edit-2
        5 days ago

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

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          8•5 days ago

          Aka 6 “knobs,” according to Gordon Ramsey.

          • SkaveRat
            link
            fedilink
            English
            6•5 days ago

            aka “the bare minimum”

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        4•5 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      14•5 days ago

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

    • Lovable Sidekick
      link
      fedilink
      English
      12•
      edit-2
      5 days ago

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

Not The [email protected]

[email protected]
Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Welcome

We’re not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from…
  2. …credible sources, with…
  3. …their original headlines, that…
  4. …would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

  • 84 users / day
  • 796 users / week
  • 1.9K users / month
  • 5.59K users / 6 months
  • 2 subscribers
  • 1.89K Posts
  • 68.3K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • @[email protected]
  • UI: 0.18.4
  • BE: 0.18.2
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org