Eli5 why hippos can’t swim because of their weight yet blue whales can
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This is why the imperial system sucks. Weight is arbitrary in this situation. What’s more important is mass and volume. A hippo has a greater mass to volume ratio than a whale. The difference in the mass of a whale to a hippos is less than the volume of a hippo to a whale. The ratio of mass to volume in an object is its desity.
It’s the same reason you can throw a 1 gram stone into water and it sinks, but a 100kg wooden log will float.
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