Tag: raticate

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jadensilver:

dashingcat:

punkrockdorianpavus:

punkrockdorianpavus:

This rat is 87 centimeters tall and weighs 10 grams. This rat is about 0.6 the density of helium. I carry this rat around on a string like a balloon.

It will take this rat half an hour to reach outer space

How did you calculate it’s volume only based on its height? You’re missing 2 dimensions of information.

Maybe they measured the difference between its height and its width to figure it out. I can’t think of how to properly describe it, but I’m sure there’s a way to do it. You can spin it to get a full 3d image. 

Someone else said that you’d basically take the dimensions from the picture and scale those with the given height. Since the height 0.87 meters, the width (judging from the pic) would be roughly 60% of the height. So the estimated width is 0.52 meters. I’m gonna pretend that the length is the same as the width so that would also be 0.52 meters.

The volume would be roughly 240000cm^3. That means the density of the rat is 0.0000416g/cm^3 and the density of helium gas is 0.000164g/cm^3. So the rat’s density is actually 0.25 (25%) the density of helium from what I got. 

I don’t know how they got 60%. The rat still floats though.