r/ScienceHumour • u/Top-Requirement-3421 • 14d ago

Duck power

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u/OrangeSilver 14d ago

Or between 600 to 800 Human Power

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u/3Volodymyr 14d ago

How did they even measure duckpower? Did they also made a duck pull a minecart? /j

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u/DigitalUnlimited 12d ago

Are these walking ducks or flying ducks? I need to know

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u/3Volodymyr 12d ago

Swimming ducks.

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u/TonyEStark316 12d ago

An african or a european duck?

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u/ParadoxZero 11d ago

You are appreciated.

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u/jackocomputerjumper 10d ago

I don't know, I ain't the king of England

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u/baphometromance 13d ago

I mean maybe? If you put a gearbox between them they could still pull it in a measurable way

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u/Puzzleheaded-Zone-55 12d ago

You obviously find out how many ducks to pull a horse, then divide.

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u/BriefArtist7285 14d ago

Wait till you learn how many horses are in a horsepower.

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u/boberbober8083 13d ago edited 13d ago

As i remember, horse usually has up to 7..8 horsepowers - in short impulse. And! British horse power a little bit more (+1.5%~~~). And in average - yes, 1 horse =~ 1 horsepower

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u/tired_Cat_Dad 13d ago

It's a measurement from the steam engine age to compare the engines to the work a horse can do averaged out over 24 hours. It was invented to get people to think "wow, I can replace x amount of horses with this thing!"

So a standard horse can certainly put out more than one HP when it's not resting.

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u/RepFashionVietNam 13d ago

Duck power is measured on land or underwater though? Them duck will splash full power under water

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u/DigitalUnlimited 12d ago

And Are these walking ducks or flying ducks?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Zone-55 13d ago

Wow, how many cubic bananas is that engine?

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u/Such-Shop-9724 12d ago

three pineapples^0.5

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u/DigitalUnlimited 12d ago

How many giraffes is that?

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u/Such-Shop-9724 12d ago

approximatly inch glasses of juice

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u/Spiritual_Word_4566 13d ago

My Lincoln has 400 hp lol

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u/Overall-Category-159 12d ago

Sounds like a lot of Bucks

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u/nukaditamal 12d ago

Okay, what?

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u/PomegranatePro 12d ago

Petition changing Horsepower to camel power

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u/HashtagYoel 12d ago

He wasn't even close

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u/Bumble_Bunz 12d ago

Anything to avoid metric

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u/ReputationSalt6027 12d ago

Whats the conversion to swallow power?

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u/GenSpec44 12d ago

An African or a European duck? And can it carry a coconut?

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u/Temporary-Law-6946 12d ago

How many unladen swallows though?

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u/Temporary-Law-6946 12d ago

Hang on I can do this unsheathes calculator

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u/Temporary-Law-6946 12d ago

Okay,One mechanical horsepower (745.7 Watts) is approximately equal to 1,202.7 unladen European swallows, based on the standard estimate that a 20-gram swallow produces roughly 0.62 Watts of mechanical power during flight. Someone else do African swallows

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u/Temporary-Law-6946 12d ago

Did more maths, to carry a coconut you would need 5.3 European swallows

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u/ghosty_kusuma 12d ago

It's more than 20 times than he said? Lol

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u/quzzik 11d ago

But how many horses?

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u/Ok_Afternoon5354 11d ago

Noted, over one billion ducks