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justdoit ( @justdoit@lemm.ee ) 40•11 months agoCan someone convert the measurement to bratwurst for the Europeans?
TheForkOfDamocles ( @theforkofdamocles@beehaw.org ) 6•11 months agoAre we talking Ball Park or Costco sized?
worfamerryman ( @worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months agoAsking the real questions.
kool_newt ( @kool_newt@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months agoHoffy
The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 6•11 months ago99 bratwurst
solanaceous ( @solanaceous@beehaw.org ) 27•11 months agoA absurd grump for an absurd headline: What toasts my buns about this article is that it uses hot dogs as a unit of “size” when it really means length. The asteroid is actually the size of millions of hotdogs, because asteroids and hotdogs are both three-dimensional.
Unicorn 🌳 ( @unicorn@mander.xyz ) 2•11 months agoI actually first assumed that they meant three dimensional volume when I read “size” and wondered how we saw such a tiny comet. Quite confusing (read: bad) choice of title…
Rozaŭtuno ( @Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 24•11 months agoHow much is that in beans?
collegefurtrader ( @collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de ) 13•11 months ago25 cans by volume, or 87 cans if its linear
slartibartfast42 ( @slartibartfast42@beehaw.org ) 23•11 months agoObligatory “Americans will use everything but the metric system” joke aside, I wonder how astronomers can even discover an asteroid this small.
knokelmaat ( @knokelmaat@beehaw.org ) 13•11 months agoThe “size” of 100 hot dogs is misleading. It is not a pile of 100 hot dogs to demonstrate the volume of the asteroid, but a line of 100 hot dogs to demonstrate the diameter, which is 16 meters. So in volume, this is a lot more than 100 hot dogs!
slartibartfast42 ( @slartibartfast42@beehaw.org ) 4•11 months agoStill not very big.
Plus_a_Grain_of_Salt ( @Plus_a_Grain_of_Salt@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months agoYou know, I think that’s a good thing, I don’t think I’d be excited for an enormous asteroid headed towards Earth.
Lucien ( @lucien@beehaw.org ) 3•11 months agoAnd here I was thinking that it was 100 hotdogs lined up end-to-end. What a deceptive headline!
dm1336 ( @dm1336@lemmy.ca ) 19•11 months agoAnything but Metric
DSLeMaster ( @DSLeMaster@beehaw.org ) 17•11 months agoWho the hell measures anything in hotdogs? I’ve lived in America my whole life, and I’ve never heard anything but the Nathan’s Hotdog Eating record measured in hotdogs.
king_dead ( @king_dead@beehaw.org ) 14•11 months ago snowbell ( @snowbell@beehaw.org ) 11•11 months agoI don’t know what 100 hot dogs looks like, and I hope I never find out
Samus Crankpork ( @Crankpork@beehaw.org ) 4•11 months agoThat’s coward’s talk!
dope ( @dope@beehaw.org ) 8•11 months agoThis is a wild article. Someone please tell me it was written by AI. 😶
alyaza [they/she] ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) 10•11 months agoit was not; using increasingly absurdist units of measurement for this beat is the author’s bit and he (correctly, imo) finds it funny
nzodd ( @nzodd@beehaw.org ) 5•11 months agoHuh, no kidding: https://www.jpost.com/author/aaron-reich
Drew Got No Clue ( @ndr@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months ago“Asteroid the size of 6 Darth Vaders to pass Earth on Star Wars Day” lmao
Dee ( @Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org ) 5•11 months agoI love that this headline is followed by the “moderator” and “admin” tags by OP so that it looks even more official. Like yes, this is a normal unit of measurement, so says the admin lol
nzodd ( @nzodd@beehaw.org ) 4•11 months agoThis asteroid is just some kind of elaborate marketing stunt for Armageddon 2, starring Joey Chestnut.
Joey Chestnut: “Wait, wouldn’t it make more sense just to train experienced astronauts how to eat competitively instead of the other way around?”
Michael Bay: “Shut the fuck up!”
plantstho ( @plantstho@beehaw.org ) 4•11 months agoIs this going to be the Beehaw version of “banana for scale”?
worfamerryman ( @worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) 3•11 months agoThis was a thing on Reddit as well.
I think it came from the headlines in a few articles that would say things like an asteroid the size of a car… and an asteroid the size of an elephant and two giraffes.
I think after a while it became an accepted meme to just report the size of the asteroid by comparing it to something random instead of just posting the metric size.
astronot ( @astronot@beehaw.org ) 4•11 months agoQuick somebody call Joey Chestnut! Only he can save us!
Zo0 ( @Zo0@feddit.de ) 3•11 months agoWhat size hotdog we talking about here? NASA: Hotdog the size of 50 beans
TheOtherJake ( @TheOtherJake@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months agoIt’s a bird. It’s a plane. No it’s weiner sizzle