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- justdoit ( @justdoit@lemm.ee ) 40•1 year ago
Can someone convert the measurement to bratwurst for the Europeans?
- TheForkOfDamocles ( @theforkofdamocles@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
Are we talking Ball Park or Costco sized?
- worfamerryman ( @worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Asking the real questions.
- kool_newt ( @kool_newt@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Hoffy
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
99 bratwurst
- solanaceous ( @solanaceous@beehaw.org ) 27•1 year ago
A 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•1 year ago
I 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•1 year ago
How much is that in beans?
- collegefurtrader ( @collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de ) 13•1 year ago
25 cans by volume, or 87 cans if its linear
- slartibartfast42 ( @slartibartfast42@beehaw.org ) 23•1 year ago
Obligatory “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•1 year ago
The “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•1 year ago
Still not very big.
You 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•1 year ago
And here I was thinking that it was 100 hotdogs lined up end-to-end. What a deceptive headline!
- dm1336 ( @dm1336@lemmy.ca ) 19•1 year ago
Anything but Metric
- DSLeMaster ( @DSLeMaster@beehaw.org ) 17•1 year ago
Who 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•1 year ago
- snowbell ( @snowbell@beehaw.org ) 11•1 year ago
I don’t know what 100 hot dogs looks like, and I hope I never find out
- Samus Crankpork ( @Crankpork@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
That’s coward’s talk!
- dope ( @dope@beehaw.org ) 8•1 year ago
This is a wild article. Someone please tell me it was written by AI. 😶
- alyaza [they/she] ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) 10•1 year ago
it 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•1 year ago
Huh, no kidding: https://www.jpost.com/author/aaron-reich
- Drew Got No Clue ( @ndr@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
“Asteroid the size of 6 Darth Vaders to pass Earth on Star Wars Day” lmao
- Dee ( @Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
I 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•1 year ago
This 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•1 year ago
Is this going to be the Beehaw version of “banana for scale”?
- worfamerryman ( @worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
This 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•1 year ago
Quick somebody call Joey Chestnut! Only he can save us!
- Zo0 ( @Zo0@feddit.de ) 3•1 year ago
What size hotdog we talking about here? NASA: Hotdog the size of 50 beans
- TheOtherJake ( @TheOtherJake@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No it’s weiner sizzle