• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    13 days ago

    Even if you think height divided by two, why even describe it that way? Giraffes are tall, but not so unfathomably tall that something half its size is incomprehensible. That’s 7-9ish feet. You couldn’t say the size of Andre the Giant?

    • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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      13 days ago

      The Youth Today don’t know who that is. Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is? We may never know.

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        13 days ago

        Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is?

        Just today, I learned a handy way of visualizing the size of a giraffe. If you took that asteroid that struck off the coast of Iceland, and made a copy of it and put the two of them together, that’s about the size of a giraffe.

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      13 days ago

      People usually measure asteroids by mass (but then, those people are already abnormal, so who knows?), if so, it’s something around the size of a cow.

      Or maybe they could use metric…