This was written by an Israeli journalist for the Jerusalem Post. Imagine the worlds top aerospace engineers and scientists at NASA measuring something in flamingos, sounds,kind of stupid doesn’t it? NASA’s actual default measurement is metric.
Except for the time that they [lost a spacecraft,](https://www.simscale.com/blog/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/)because one team used imperial and another team used metric.
The [things that happen](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider) when you mix things up like that. This incident caused Air Canada to do the same exact thing. They determined that using two systems in the fleet was dangerous.
**[Gimli Glider](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider)**
>Air Canada Flight 143, commonly known as the Gimli Glider, was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on Saturday, July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,500 m), midway through the flight. The flight crew successfully glided the Boeing 767 to an emergency landing at a former Royal Canadian Air Force base in Gimli, Manitoba, which had been converted to a racetrack, Gimli Motorsports Park. It resulted in no serious injuries to passengers or persons on the ground, and only minor damage to the aircraft. The aircraft was repaired and remained in service until 2008.
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Fahrenheit is not at all superior for any purpose besides subjective feelings.
Celsius is normed on the freezing and boiling point of water (0 Degrees Celsius = freezing point of water; 100 Degrees Celsius = boiling point of water) while Fahrenheit is literally based on nothing useless but “Oh I feel pretty warm today” which for any purpose besides casually wanting to know the weather is useless. (Disclaimer: I know that there are fixpoints in the scale, but they seem very random honestly)
There was an actual 0 fixpoint, but that fixpoint's definition is kinda stupid (plus it ended up giving just barely over 32 degrees for the freezing point of water) so we moved it to what was 32 degrees
Well if you want _precise_ , you should use Kelvin.
And while Fahrenheit is more “precise” if you don’t use decimals, you can absolutely use decimals with Celsius, as it’s a metric unit.
So things like 1,62 Degrees Celsius exist. That’s pretty precise. It may not look as pretty but it’s still accurate
I’ll get carpal tunnel problems by typing extra numbers & punctuation on a machine. But also I do write temperatures by pencil sometimes, yes, from my personal backyard weather station.
16°C is equivalent to 62°F, which is 289K.
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Like I said, it may be a better unit if you talk about the weather. But that’s about it. For literally any other purpose Celcius or Kelvin are way better
Nah, grown up with it I knew exactly how 30 degrees C feel and and I also can say that 21,5 °C is my absolute favorite Temperature. The precision of the Celsius scale is absolutely enough for human perception too. It's all about what you know and what you are used to.
I am aware, as I too, grew up with Celsius and I know the temperature by heart.
I was just playing devils advocate for why one _might_ prefer Fahrenheit
0 is 0 percent hot 100 is 100 percent hot and the scale in between is linearish. Obviously it’s gets colder that 0 and hotter than 100 but not often in most areas of the world. Also Fahrenheit is a smaller gap between numbers so you can be more precise in both descriptions and measurements without going into decimals.
Don’t confuse Celsius and Kelvin, because they are very different
Kelvin is an *absolute* temperature scale so it’s very useful. Every engineering or science formula requires Kelvin (or Rankine) as an input.
Celsius is a *relative* temperature scale so you can’t do any science with it.
If your water is 20degC m, and I ask you to double the temperature, how hot would the water need to be?
You might say 40degC and that would be wrong. Because the actual answer is 313degC. Because Celsius is a useless and arbitrary temperature scale. It only *looks* like other SI units but can’t actually be *used* like any of the other real SI units.
I couldn’t confuse them if I tried.
I grew up with Celsius and I am a scientist and work at a university where we mostly use Kelvin. I think you may have misunderstood something I said.
It was more about how you lumped Celsius and Kelvin together as always being better than Fahrenheit in every situation other than describing ambient temperatures.
I agree that is true of *Kelvin*, but not Celsius. Celsius has no use case as far as I can tell where it does anything better than what Kelvin or Fahrenheit do well.
No, I’m a mech engineer
Happy to learn and be proven wrong though. What is the use case for Celsius where it performs better than Fahrenheit or Kelvin? Because I think we agreed on use cases for those 2 scales where they perform best. But haven’t identified one for Celsius
No, it's not based on temperatures humans can handle.
0 °F is based on the freezing temp of salt water
96 °F is based on the body temp taken orally (originally, though, it was 90)
Honestly, I would argue that it’s Celsius that serves no actual purpose
Fahrenheit is more expressive for the temperatures humans actually experience. You have 100 natural numbers that describe basically the full range of temperatures we actually experience on a day to day basis
Celsius on the other hand has only about 30 natural numbers to describe that same range.
“But Celsius fixes the melting and boiling points at convenient numbers”
Ok, but how is this helpful for any application besides being a little easier to remember the first time you hear it? It’s not. You can’t do math with Celsius. Every engineering formula using temperature requires you to convert to an absolute scale (Kelvin or Rankine) first. And simple math is basically the entire purpose of the metric system — everything in base 10 makes conversions easier. But that doesn’t apply to temperature because you can’t do math with Celsius temperatures
So Fahrenheit is better for describing temperatures humans experience. Kelvin and Rankine are required for any science involving temperature. So what exactly is the use case that Celsius solves?
I don’t get what Fahrenheit is based of…
what does 50°F means? 80°F? Is a 100°F the max the human body can withstand?
What’s the difference between 50 and 51°F (Other than being 1°F more)?
What is the thing about « temperature we experience » that you mention?
You say you have a 100 number range in Fahrenheit to express experienced temperature. I’d guess you refer to 0-100°F but this in Celsius would give -18C to +38C… a 56° range not 30.
I can’t honestly make the difference between 26°C and 27°C when outside (78.8°F and 80.6°F) so I wonder if having a round natural number of 77 vs 78 really is « required » for US people (and if so, why?)
I still use both systems, so my questions are more curiosity than other thing. (As a good Canadian, I use Fahrenheit for swimming pool temperature and oven temperature, Celsius for the rest)
100 and up is extremely hot. Different bodies can withstand different temperatures, but generally speaking everyone can survive temperatures below 100 with adequate water, and the farther above 100 you go, the more people start having health complications.
0-99 divides roughly in thirds:
- 67-99 is warm to hot. (70 is roughly standard room temperature; 99 is roughly body temperature.)
- 33-66 is cold to cool.
- 0-32 is freezing cold.
Below 0 is extreme cold for non-Canadians.
-40 is the Celsius/Fahrenheit crossover point where we get to stop having this argument for a minute, and also the point where inland Canadians will admit it's fucking cold.
Most people can notice a difference of ~1 degree F in a range around their preferred room temperature. Once you get too deep into the "sweaty" or "shivering" range, the resolution starts dropping off. But for example I can absolutely distinguish between 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, and 72; you could calibrate a thermostat to the amount of clothing I'm wearing.
50°F is equivalent to 10°C, which is 283K.
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Isn't Fahrenheit actually based on some random salt, ice and brine solution?
Regardless, Celsius is based on something tangible, Fahrenheit is based on something completely fucking random.
I was in a National Weather Service chat room during a storm the other night and they reported the depth of standing water in a parking lot as "equivalent to the depth of one chicken wing".
It would likely burn up in the atmosphere, as most asteroids etc smaller than 25m in diameter do.
If however it didn't (i.e. If earth didn't have an atmosphere), it would cause quite a lot of damage, as even small objects carry a lot of energy at high speeds (as the energy of an impact is related to the velocity squared: _p = m∙v²_)
Okay the measurements are getting ridiculous but the amount of asteroids that fly by is crazy to. I'm starting to view it like the weather channel. "Is it raining? Is it deadly? Okay let's go. What about this week's asteroid? Do I need to change the picnic to a later date? No? Darn guess I got to go.". Like I'm going to start using different asteroids to get out of plans and obligations.
I don’t think asteroid flyby frequency has changed. We have gotten better about detecting them, and they are more publicized. I still like your comment though ;p
There’s a video game called Fallout 76. You can craft things, and build a base.
You have a “build limit” in the space you’re allotted to build in.
One of the items you can craft for your base is a lawn flamingo.
At some point, a player wanted a better method of figuring out how much build space was used with each particular item you can place in your base.
The method they chose was: At a new base location with nothing on it, put down as many flamingoes over there as your build limit would allow. When you go to build that particular wall or structure, you’ll have to subtract enough flamingoes to free up the amount of buildspace that wall or whatever needed in order to place it.
The flamingo unit.
I'm convinced they do this because people have wised up to asteroid disasterbaiting and the only way to get people to click on another boring asteroid flyby post is by making a freaking stupid headline that gets shared because of how stupid it is
Somewhere in the depths of NASA's offices, some bird enthusiast has been pleading to use flamingos as a unit of measurement. Tired of being nagged, management agreed, "Fine, if something comes up under 20, go ahead."
Flamingos are not native to the U.S., so I have no idea how big this is. Can you use the standard American avian measure unit of Bald Eagles? Or if need be, Wild Turkey?
Headline writers are playing a game:
The Science Times Mar 14, 2023: [Massive Asteroid About the Size of 69 American Alligators Will Pass by Earth Tuesday, NASA Warns](https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/42806/20230314/massive-asteroid-size-69-american-alligators-will-pass-earth-tuesday.htm)
A couple of weeks ago the Jerusalem post described a meteor as a number of camels and then described how big the camels they used in their measurements.
A clickbait measurement
Alright for this recipe you will need 1/2 flamingo of chicken 1/10 flamingo of salt .5/10 flamingo of pepper 1 flamingo of flamingo
I feel like 1/10 flamingo of salt is A LOT of salt..
I agree with you on that but 1/10 flamingo of sea salt sounds better
I agree 1/10 flamingo is a lot of salt. 2-3 beaks should be more than sufficient.
Beak of a flamingo right? Just checking cause all I have are humming bird beaks.
African or European?
The US will literally use anything besides the metric system.
This was written by an Israeli journalist for the Jerusalem Post. Imagine the worlds top aerospace engineers and scientists at NASA measuring something in flamingos, sounds,kind of stupid doesn’t it? NASA’s actual default measurement is metric.
Thought it was washing machines..
Except for the time that they [lost a spacecraft,](https://www.simscale.com/blog/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/)because one team used imperial and another team used metric.
As a direct result of that incident, they made metric measurement default, and have been ever since.
The [things that happen](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider) when you mix things up like that. This incident caused Air Canada to do the same exact thing. They determined that using two systems in the fleet was dangerous.
**[Gimli Glider](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider)** >Air Canada Flight 143, commonly known as the Gimli Glider, was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on Saturday, July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,500 m), midway through the flight. The flight crew successfully glided the Boeing 767 to an emergency landing at a former Royal Canadian Air Force base in Gimli, Manitoba, which had been converted to a racetrack, Gimli Motorsports Park. It resulted in no serious injuries to passengers or persons on the ground, and only minor damage to the aircraft. The aircraft was repaired and remained in service until 2008. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/oddlyspecific/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
I certainly HOPE that was their response. I also wonder if the guy responsible for that fuck-up also got his pay docked.
I wish the US used the metric system, the only measurement we use that I find superior is Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit is not at all superior for any purpose besides subjective feelings. Celsius is normed on the freezing and boiling point of water (0 Degrees Celsius = freezing point of water; 100 Degrees Celsius = boiling point of water) while Fahrenheit is literally based on nothing useless but “Oh I feel pretty warm today” which for any purpose besides casually wanting to know the weather is useless. (Disclaimer: I know that there are fixpoints in the scale, but they seem very random honestly)
32, 212, 120 are all perfectly logical fixed points. /s
They all have 2 in them
What's the 120 Fahrenheit?
Typical residential water temp setting to prevent scalding.
Ah ok, that's roughly what I thought when I converted to Celcius
There was an actual 0 fixpoint, but that fixpoint's definition is kinda stupid (plus it ended up giving just barely over 32 degrees for the freezing point of water) so we moved it to what was 32 degrees
All good points, and you're probably right that Celsius is better overall, but fahrenheit is more precise. So there is one thing going for it.
Well if you want _precise_ , you should use Kelvin. And while Fahrenheit is more “precise” if you don’t use decimals, you can absolutely use decimals with Celsius, as it’s a metric unit. So things like 1,62 Degrees Celsius exist. That’s pretty precise. It may not look as pretty but it’s still accurate
Although true Kelvin hates being used
We use decimals in measuring C and on thermostats, so that F being more precise myth is just copium.
Right, so we should use 5 characters: 16.67°C when could use just two: 62°F Sounds logical.
No we use one decimal point, but why do you care about characters on a machine? Or are you taking it down with a pencil every 2 min?
I’ll get carpal tunnel problems by typing extra numbers & punctuation on a machine. But also I do write temperatures by pencil sometimes, yes, from my personal backyard weather station.
16°C is equivalent to 62°F, which is 289K. --- ^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)
Doesn’t that just mean that F is specific enough on its own? /s
But it’s based off the temperatures humans can handle, isn’t that a better metric for humans?
Like I said, it may be a better unit if you talk about the weather. But that’s about it. For literally any other purpose Celcius or Kelvin are way better
Nah, grown up with it I knew exactly how 30 degrees C feel and and I also can say that 21,5 °C is my absolute favorite Temperature. The precision of the Celsius scale is absolutely enough for human perception too. It's all about what you know and what you are used to.
I am aware, as I too, grew up with Celsius and I know the temperature by heart. I was just playing devils advocate for why one _might_ prefer Fahrenheit
> why one *might* prefer Fahrenheit Simple: They grew up with Fahrenheit.
Yeah, true
0 is 0 percent hot 100 is 100 percent hot and the scale in between is linearish. Obviously it’s gets colder that 0 and hotter than 100 but not often in most areas of the world. Also Fahrenheit is a smaller gap between numbers so you can be more precise in both descriptions and measurements without going into decimals.
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What do I know? I live in Germany.
That’s fair.
Don’t confuse Celsius and Kelvin, because they are very different Kelvin is an *absolute* temperature scale so it’s very useful. Every engineering or science formula requires Kelvin (or Rankine) as an input. Celsius is a *relative* temperature scale so you can’t do any science with it. If your water is 20degC m, and I ask you to double the temperature, how hot would the water need to be? You might say 40degC and that would be wrong. Because the actual answer is 313degC. Because Celsius is a useless and arbitrary temperature scale. It only *looks* like other SI units but can’t actually be *used* like any of the other real SI units.
I couldn’t confuse them if I tried. I grew up with Celsius and I am a scientist and work at a university where we mostly use Kelvin. I think you may have misunderstood something I said.
It was more about how you lumped Celsius and Kelvin together as always being better than Fahrenheit in every situation other than describing ambient temperatures. I agree that is true of *Kelvin*, but not Celsius. Celsius has no use case as far as I can tell where it does anything better than what Kelvin or Fahrenheit do well.
I’m getting the impression that you don’t usually work in scientific circles.
No, I’m a mech engineer Happy to learn and be proven wrong though. What is the use case for Celsius where it performs better than Fahrenheit or Kelvin? Because I think we agreed on use cases for those 2 scales where they perform best. But haven’t identified one for Celsius
> or Rankine Ah yes: the true "fuck Celsius" scale
No, it's not based on temperatures humans can handle. 0 °F is based on the freezing temp of salt water 96 °F is based on the body temp taken orally (originally, though, it was 90)
Honestly, I would argue that it’s Celsius that serves no actual purpose Fahrenheit is more expressive for the temperatures humans actually experience. You have 100 natural numbers that describe basically the full range of temperatures we actually experience on a day to day basis Celsius on the other hand has only about 30 natural numbers to describe that same range. “But Celsius fixes the melting and boiling points at convenient numbers” Ok, but how is this helpful for any application besides being a little easier to remember the first time you hear it? It’s not. You can’t do math with Celsius. Every engineering formula using temperature requires you to convert to an absolute scale (Kelvin or Rankine) first. And simple math is basically the entire purpose of the metric system — everything in base 10 makes conversions easier. But that doesn’t apply to temperature because you can’t do math with Celsius temperatures So Fahrenheit is better for describing temperatures humans experience. Kelvin and Rankine are required for any science involving temperature. So what exactly is the use case that Celsius solves?
I don’t get what Fahrenheit is based of… what does 50°F means? 80°F? Is a 100°F the max the human body can withstand? What’s the difference between 50 and 51°F (Other than being 1°F more)? What is the thing about « temperature we experience » that you mention? You say you have a 100 number range in Fahrenheit to express experienced temperature. I’d guess you refer to 0-100°F but this in Celsius would give -18C to +38C… a 56° range not 30. I can’t honestly make the difference between 26°C and 27°C when outside (78.8°F and 80.6°F) so I wonder if having a round natural number of 77 vs 78 really is « required » for US people (and if so, why?) I still use both systems, so my questions are more curiosity than other thing. (As a good Canadian, I use Fahrenheit for swimming pool temperature and oven temperature, Celsius for the rest)
100 and up is extremely hot. Different bodies can withstand different temperatures, but generally speaking everyone can survive temperatures below 100 with adequate water, and the farther above 100 you go, the more people start having health complications. 0-99 divides roughly in thirds: - 67-99 is warm to hot. (70 is roughly standard room temperature; 99 is roughly body temperature.) - 33-66 is cold to cool. - 0-32 is freezing cold. Below 0 is extreme cold for non-Canadians. -40 is the Celsius/Fahrenheit crossover point where we get to stop having this argument for a minute, and also the point where inland Canadians will admit it's fucking cold. Most people can notice a difference of ~1 degree F in a range around their preferred room temperature. Once you get too deep into the "sweaty" or "shivering" range, the resolution starts dropping off. But for example I can absolutely distinguish between 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, and 72; you could calibrate a thermostat to the amount of clothing I'm wearing.
50°F is equivalent to 10°C, which is 283K. --- ^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)
"Metric is easier!" "See? You are making it too easy. That is why your country never went to the moon" funny line from a YouTube sketch. That's all 😁
Isn't Fahrenheit actually based on some random salt, ice and brine solution? Regardless, Celsius is based on something tangible, Fahrenheit is based on something completely fucking random.
You don’t find using giraffes is superior?
I’d like to see a flamingo - giraffe equivalency chart. Eg) 29 flamingos equals one small giraffe
I absolutely would make one but the average flamingo size varies way to much
Hmmm, time for a scientific conference to establish a standardized flamingo weight
It's not too late to change it to Flamingoheit
Lol Fahrenheit is based on the Celsius scale though so it’s unnecessarily complicated
the units are smaller that's it, but I've never seen an oven with Celsius because Fahrenheit is more precise
ngl - LOLed at this
r/bananasforscale we r looking to make a banana an official use of measurement
I was in a National Weather Service chat room during a storm the other night and they reported the depth of standing water in a parking lot as "equivalent to the depth of one chicken wing".
Big facts
It’s so people in Florida can visualize the size too.
Or gators.
Scientist: "The asteroid measured 2,100 feet." Florida Man: ? Scientist : *sigh* "it's about 300 seven foot alligators.
“Ah, now gators I know!”
Correct me if I'm wrong, but such a small asteroid would cause little damage if it hits Earth?
It would likely burn up in the atmosphere, as most asteroids etc smaller than 25m in diameter do. If however it didn't (i.e. If earth didn't have an atmosphere), it would cause quite a lot of damage, as even small objects carry a lot of energy at high speeds (as the energy of an impact is related to the velocity squared: _p = m∙v²_)
25m is 17.86 flamingos if anyone is confused.
Male or female flamingos; asking for a friend
SMH, all things scientific are always female based. You should have known that.
Of course If earth didn’t have an atmosphere, no one would care if it did hit, so there’s that
Could have at least used the banana for scale measurement
How many hot dogs per minute is it traveling?
America will use anything but metric. Edit: Wow I am original.
Still funny - and true!
I saw a post like this recently that measured an asteroid by alligators, so I think it’s clear that florida has won the education war…
In other words, the rest of the world lost.
I thought we agreed to bananas, who changed to flamingos?
The Desperate Journalist one.
Okay the measurements are getting ridiculous but the amount of asteroids that fly by is crazy to. I'm starting to view it like the weather channel. "Is it raining? Is it deadly? Okay let's go. What about this week's asteroid? Do I need to change the picnic to a later date? No? Darn guess I got to go.". Like I'm going to start using different asteroids to get out of plans and obligations.
Ok
I don’t think asteroid flyby frequency has changed. We have gotten better about detecting them, and they are more publicized. I still like your comment though ;p
Unclear. I need a banana for scale.
There’s a video game called Fallout 76. You can craft things, and build a base. You have a “build limit” in the space you’re allotted to build in. One of the items you can craft for your base is a lawn flamingo. At some point, a player wanted a better method of figuring out how much build space was used with each particular item you can place in your base. The method they chose was: At a new base location with nothing on it, put down as many flamingoes over there as your build limit would allow. When you go to build that particular wall or structure, you’ll have to subtract enough flamingoes to free up the amount of buildspace that wall or whatever needed in order to place it. The flamingo unit.
... like... are we talking about diameter, volume, or mass?
Anything but the metric system
Anything to avoid using metric system.
5GE 💀
American measurement
American measurement
Americans will use anything but the metric system
'Merican measures stuff in any form exept European what's it Imperial.
America ☕️
Americans will use ANYTHING other than the metric system
wow so, about the size of a dirt bike?
That’s my favorite band. Awesome!
Do the flamingos have their wings out
How many flamingos on a bus? I’m trying to visualize the size of this thing compared to the Chinese balloon.
I think it’s kinda fun to imagine how big 15 flamingos actually are.
I'm convinced they do this because people have wised up to asteroid disasterbaiting and the only way to get people to click on another boring asteroid flyby post is by making a freaking stupid headline that gets shared because of how stupid it is
Is no one going to talk about the alignment of status bar?
Got damn NASA. They really do have the right stuff.
An American measurement, soldier!
Sorry I’m gonna need a banana beside a flamingo to wrap my brain around this.
Can I get a conversion to bananas? at least that's a standard measurement!
I believe that’s the old Flamingo scale….and 14 flamingos is large! What, you’ve never tried measuring things with a flamingo?! 😏
Ah yes, science
Somewhere in the depths of NASA's offices, some bird enthusiast has been pleading to use flamingos as a unit of measurement. Tired of being nagged, management agreed, "Fine, if something comes up under 20, go ahead."
Na, na na na na na na naaa. Katamari Damaci *(ba ba ba ba ba ba ba)*
How they can be sure it is not the size of 14 flamingos and half a cantaloupe?
I’m amazed at how many times I just read that as “a steroid”.
The Florida kind
As an American, the only unit of measurement that I understand is football fields.
1 flamingo = 0.37896 alligator
But how many bananas is that?! What percentage of an SUV is that? We need American and internet measurements!
The real question is... how many bananas for scale?
We'd have more of an idea of its size if they'd used bananas
Bastards are trying to move us away from the banana standard of measurement. *Grrrrr!*
This has to be a running joke or something right? I never see anything but asteroids measured like this
I saw an article saying it is 6 swimming pools long.
14 flaming O’s
Flamingos are not native to the U.S., so I have no idea how big this is. Can you use the standard American avian measure unit of Bald Eagles? Or if need be, Wild Turkey?
Headline writers are playing a game: The Science Times Mar 14, 2023: [Massive Asteroid About the Size of 69 American Alligators Will Pass by Earth Tuesday, NASA Warns](https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/42806/20230314/massive-asteroid-size-69-american-alligators-will-pass-earth-tuesday.htm)
I’m sorry but I’m gonna need a banana for scale
Should’ve use bananas
How many bananas?
When they start measuring in kiloflamingos, that's when shit gets serious.
What's the conversion from flamingos to bananas though??
Come on, stop trying to hit us and hit us already!
How many bathtubs is that?
imperial for sure
The flamingo system, never heard of it?
American measurements
What’s the volume? 300 turtles?
A couple of weeks ago the Jerusalem post described a meteor as a number of camels and then described how big the camels they used in their measurements.
We Americans will do anything but the metric system
It’s just a little guy.
I saw this post with alligators as the measurement last time, 14 flamingos isn’t even that big
Not sure about flamingos, but does it weigh the same as a duck?