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- news@kbin.social
- climate@kbin.social
As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of winter, another terrifying climate record is being broken. Antarctic sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year.
- driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) 18•1 year ago
Argentina-size must be the stupidest measure ever invented. No one even known how really huge Argentina is because the visual map everyone has on their mind is the Mercator projection. Americans would use anything before metric.
- Lodespawn ( @Lodespawn@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
Isnt “one Texas” one of the standard nonsense units used in the United states? Why aren’t they using that? Or can they only use it when it’s 1, 2, 5 or 12 texases and otherwise it’s Argentina’s?
- JWBananas ( @JWBananas@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
In all seriousness, there was a Texas-sized-chunk-of-ice event in 2016.
- Lodespawn ( @Lodespawn@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Well that’s terrifying, 1 Argentina is 4 Texases
- Lodespawn ( @Lodespawn@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Give or take a few Texans …
- Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 1•1 year ago
I seem to remember that the asteroid broke up over Russia and was captured on film a while ago was the size of half a giraffe. Or 0.000001 Texas, Texas’s, Texai?
- Lodespawn ( @Lodespawn@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Do we just switch to Texans at that scale? So like 6 Texans?
- ghost_laptop ( @gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
I know how big it its, pretty big let me tell ya.
- Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 14•1 year ago
Why is the headline written like that?
“Scientists are scrambling to figure out why”, we know why it’s missing, it’s not a mystery.
- Kwakigra ( @Kwakigra@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
My first thought was that Argentina took the piece of Antarctica they claimed.
- Waraugh ( @Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•1 year ago
I bet it melted
- itchy_lizard ( @itchy_lizard@feddit.it ) 2•1 year ago
Somebody get then a gopro
- JohnnyCanuck ( @JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
Anyone see The Day After Tomorrow?
- I_Miss_Daniel ( @I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
I wonder if that’s the same piece as the Western Australia-sized piece reported missing here in Oz :)
- Xeelee ( @Xeelee@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Jewish space lasers been busy again, eh?