Having a little problem with metric units are we?
Mobile phone video of the badgers circulating in Basra shows a stocky skunk-like animal with long front claws. The honey badger, or ratel, is known as a brave predator capable of killing a cobra. It weighs up to 14kg (301b),
300 lbs is one hell of a big badger.
Wrong, 30 lb has been misstyped as 301 b.
Tim adds: I know, I know.
The story in yesterday’s paper about the Babylonian cuneiform tablet refers to “1.5 minas (0.75 kg) of gold”. It sounds as if one mina is about one lb.
“300 lbs is one hell of a big badger.”
You should see the size of the mushrooms.
“300 lbs is one hell of a big badger.”
Hmmm:
“I saw it three days ago at night attacking animals. It even ate a cow.”
That’ll be the cause then. Overfeeding…. 😉
1) “Look, what if we built a giant badger.”
2) A mina is a pound but that weight varied across polities. A Roman mina was, IIRC, 360 grams (1 mina = 100 denarii = 400 sesterces where a sesterce weighed .9 grams). An Attic mina was about 420 (100 drachma but the drachma was composed of 6 obols of .7 grams). I think an Aegenaten mina was about 600. The next step up is a talent of 60 mina.
Unless the “b” stands for “badgerweight”, in which case a 301b badger would indeed be a wonderment.
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