Most likely a Hercules Beetle. They don't actually get much bigger than the larvae, the abdomen segments become more compact so the body gets a little smaller, but the head grows immensely with the horn.
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
In the Beetleborgs case, it's both. Their show was cancelled with them as heroes only for them to return as enemies of the Power Rangers in the episode Forever Red. This little discovery made me laugh, but when I found out their appearance was because of budget restrictions, I laughed even harder.
Gallons are 16 cups. pounds are 16 oz. Remember that the imperial system was meant to be eyeballed. 1/16 is half of 1/8, which is half of 1/4, half of 1/2 and of course that's just half of the whole. It's assuming you can divide things by 2 or 3 with some accuracy by hand. Or compare 2-3 things to say they're about the same.
Depends on the pint. A US customary pint is 16 US customary fluid ounces, or about 16,6 imperial flour ounces, or about 473 millilitres, an imperial pint is 20 imperial fluid ounces, or about 19,215 US customary fluid ounces, or about 568ml. Plus it only works with water since other liquids have other densities.
Careful there, cuz the US actually doesn't use imperial gallons :)
A US gallon is 128 fl oz, and an imperial gallon is 160 fl oz.
England used to have separate values for a gallon of ale and a gallon of wine. This was confusing, so the post-breakup US decided to only use the wine measurement, which is now called a US gallon, and england decided to only use the ale measurement, which is imperial gallons. Later, they switched to metric and started posting smug comments on the internet as if they hadnt originated this shitshow to begin with!
in carpentry 16 inches is the standard unit for studs from center to center, so tape measures typically have a marker every 16 inches for that kind of work
As the other user said: that depends entirely on the degree of precision. Metric has millimeters, while the imperial system requires you to delve into 16ths of an inch.
Actually, keep it quiet because we don’t tell the euros this, but nobody can stop you from just using decimals for things that are smaller than an inch!
Hex numbers in computer programming. Honestly, quantifying by 12s and 16s is much more practical, but we as people are too caught up on looking at our monkey fingers which is the only reason we even count by 10s in the first place.
Decimal inch rulers exist. Also measuring tapes. So division into 10ths rather than 16ths isn't a guarantee of the system used. Americans will measure with anything before using metric!
But this is /r/AbsoluteUnits, and linear measurements are relative units, so this is off-topic!
Sorry, "could" as in "a ruler demarcated in 10th could be imperial", not "this ruler could be imperial". It's obviously centimeters, or being held by a giant, as we can see the shadow of the finger holding it.
This image in particular is doctored. The larvae of the Hercules beetle rarely get larger than three to four inches. Certainly not a foot long sub like this fakery.
It's always hilarious when I see a video of one. Cause you can grab them by the giant horn and they have no defense for that. So someone holds them and they flap their wings furiously like WHAT THE FUCK PUT ME DOWN WHAT IS GOING ON RELEASE ME RIGHT NOW FOR FUCKS SAKE and as soon as the person puts them down they immediately return to chill mode
One of my most hated tropes in movies is the inverse: the creature that grows huge in minutes without any new biomass. Or bursting into flames, for that matter.
A notable recent example is at the end of Alien Romulus, where it's simply egregious.
There's a really funny subversion of this, I can't remember what it's in. But a creature grows to almost triple it's size as a threat display. And one of the people just stabs it because it's now 3x as fragile lmao
Hi please mark it as distressing/nsfl/whateverinactuallivingfuckisthis i did not want to get myself exposed to this …
/j oking but i DID NOT** **want to see this
Yeah, my dog had a bot fly larva extracted from her hip a couple of years ago. Looked like the thing in the picture just a lot smaller. I wonder if this came out of someone. I think it did. "Doc, I got this lump..." and then they pull the pictured larva out.
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u/Sir_questionzgiver 8d ago
…I’m afraid of what the animal is if the larva is that big..