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?
how do you slice it??
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Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 months ago
The Youth Today don’t know who that is. Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is? We may never know.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Okokimup@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Alex Horn wrote it.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Sorry, I don’t get the reference and the Wikipedia page didn’t help!
marcos@lemmy.world 10 months 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…
cute_noker@feddit.dk 10 months ago
A big rock, maybe this is the appropriate time to use stone
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Or just slice it long ways down the middle. Bilateral symmetry makes this pretty easy.
Kirca@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is why real scientists use the only reasonable real world measurement - a perfectly spherical cow in a vacuum.
TorJansen@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Hmm. Thought they used bananas.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Maybe in a shop vac.
satanmat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dear gods
How far will these Americans go to not use the metric system… ffs
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Sadly they’re not American
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Your bigotry has blinded you so much you couldn’t even see the two biggest, boldest words in the picture.
satanmat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh no; I saw it was the DM… I just assumed that the writer must have been American.
You are SO correct, as I should have realized by the giraffe unit of measure.
I’m at a loss as to the Venn diagram where giraffe and imperial would overlap…
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Daily Mail are the sort who think adopting the metric system let all the foreigners into Britain and led to the downfall of empire. Probably in that order.
nialv7@lemmy.world 10 months ago
obviously the scientists meant a spherical giraffe in a vacuum
Karjalan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Personally I thought it was obvious that they were talking about the outer half
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
americans be using anything but the metric system
kalpol@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Daily Mail is British
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
But they’re the sort of British that yearns for the good old days, when we still had shillings and inches and diphtheria and jumpers for goalposts and no womens’ rights and all that great British stuff.
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 10 months ago
British people old enough to have supported the original nazis be using anything but the metric system
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Its time to retire the metric system in favor of something base 12. Base 10 is for children who need to count on their fingers, base 12 is easier to divide into quarters or thirds. Babylon was right.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Americans be using metric all our lives.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, we measure our soda in liters all the time, but only 2 liters. Other drink sizes are in ounces, and milk is in gallons and pints.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I was thinking this must be metric because only Europeans with their noses firmly in the air would get it.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
One standard volume giraffe of course, i.e. the volume in m³ an average giraffe would fill (at room temperature and sea level), when passed through a blender. And then half of that
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The scientists had to go through many more proportionate animals before discovering that half a giraffe was a near perfect match for the size of the asteroid.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
As it turns out, the emergence and popularization of Zoos during the Victorian era was largely driven by the work conducted at the Royal Institute for Volumetric Measurements in London.
Similarly the expansion of the British empire was mostly driven by the need to find ever larger exotic animals in order to establish comparative volumetric weights for the ever larger ships and constructions of that era.
“25.678 standard volume foxes”, was becoming a bit unwieldy when describing a cargo vessels weight.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nah, there’s a list somewhere of typical weights, dimensions, volumes, etc. of common items. They just put in their value and it pops up. They’re nerds first, and scientists second. You KNOW this exists somewhere, and they all have it bookmarked.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I love it when I can understand your memes!
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Ask questions when you do not. :)
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Oh I wouldn’t begin to know what to even ask. I’m a music major lol. But if I think of something, I’ll pipe up.
passenger@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Reads Daily Mail clickbait, proceeds to blame “scientists”
absentbird@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So like the size of a horse?
The average horse is about half the height and weight of the average giraffe. Giraffes are just a really bad unit of measurement, males weight about 400kg more than females and there is a wide height difference over their global population, they are technically four different species we just all call giraffe 🦒
buttnugget@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was just going to say, what kind of weird ass size comparison is that. It’s almost as egregious as saying “half the size of two apples”.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 months ago
The Smurfs were 3 apples tall.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Also, most people dont even have a good grasp on how big giraffes are anyways!
I once went to a zoo that had an elevated platform extending into the giraffe’s habitat so that you could stand face to face with them. Their heads are as big as a normal human, like 5 feet from crown to chin!
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 10 months ago
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Ah yes the Newfoundland garden giraffe, often times overlooked due to the Canadian House Hippo.
territorial@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
In other words, a large boulder the size of a small boulder
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I don’t get why Americans are doing their best to avoid the metric system. It’s always weird discriptions. Like dishwashers, or in this case, half a giraffe. Just use bananas if (cubic) meters are too complex.
morkyporky@suppo.fi 10 months ago
Isn’t daily mail in the UK?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
You mean wannabe US? (never truly accepted metric system, even discussed to change back to imperial)
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
People enjoy when things are compared in this way, it’s really not that shocking.
bstix@feddit.dk 10 months ago
It’s more of a journalist thing. They take the words out of your mouth to reach their own conclusion fast and deliver an answer that’ll fit inside the allocated screen time.
“When you heard that people use things instead of measurements to explain the size of other things, exactly how shocking was it to you?”
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 months ago
It’s not like we don’t have imperial units to use. It’s just easier to visualize an object you’re familiar with than 20ft/6m or whatever other unit. Giraffes is a strange choice though.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Friends of mine are expecting a child. They have an app to compare the current size of the baby. It has the weirdest choices:
- Wedding cake (they are always the same size? Depends on the budget right? So if you’re rich your child is bigger than when you’re poor, when it’s the wedding cake size?)
- flat box of chocolates (always the same size? Flat child?)
- small popcorn bucket
- small pinguin (there are so many differently sized small pinguïns)
- cotton candy (last one I had was huge, I feel sorry for the woman with a child that size in their womb)
- maki
- jackfruit
- rhubarb (so it’s a stick shaped child?)
- kitten (a grows the most as a kitten. They are kitten for the first year. It’s like saying the size of your baby is the size of a baby.)
I have no clue what these sizes are exactly. I do know what 10cm or 20cm is.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
And is it half the volume, mass or a dimension? Because I’ve never tried neither blending or carrying a giraffe before (I never got invited tonthose parties in uni) so I have no grasp on volume or mass.
BillBurBaggins@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Surely a giraffe is nearly uniform density making the distinction between volume and mass irrelevant
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Assume a spherical giraffe.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even if it is not if you are just looking at the toal volume or mass it makes no difference when you halve it.
Natanael@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Just the left half
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
The Daily Mail readership will not fathom your question. It is a rag for those who would follow MAGA but want to appear intelligent without have either the natural talent or putting in any work to increase knowledge. Baseline racism is a requirement
oyfrog@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The anatomical answer is sagitally down the midline.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I’m surprised they didn’t use immigrants as the unit.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
I once saw a snake half the size of a garden hose.
BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
It’s not the scientists, it’s a single journalist who is popping out these headlines. Some of those caught attention.
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 10 months ago
They could have just used inanimate objects not requiring bisection; basketballs, refrigerators, cars, busses, buildings, etc. Why bring sn abattoir into the mix?
EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You divide the giraffe vertically down the center 🤦♂️
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Coronal or Sagittarius?
Pulptastic@midwest.social 10 months ago
Bilaterally as is the way.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Probably along the primary axis
kamen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The thing that’s bothering me is that they ended a question with a period. Why, random person on the Internet, why?
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
How much is it in bananas?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Easy. Just imagine only the spots part.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Halved with a vertical cut.
0x0@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
What’s with the spherical comments in a vacuum?
0x0@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Should’ve used bananas for scale.
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bifurcated down between the eyes
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Laterally.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Everyone who’s dealt with kids knows you have to bisect the giraffe equally from nose to tail so everyone gets 2 legs, or somebody will cry that it’s unfair.
pfwood178@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Everyone who deals with scientists knows they assume a perfectly spherical, frictionless, giraffe.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 10 months ago
In a vacuum
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I cant remember, what is the friction coefficient foe a giraffe?
bulwark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I let one cut and the other gets to pick first.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is the way. And from experience, it will result in sub-nanometer size differences.
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 10 months ago
Kids are total commies.
marcos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Make sure to get the same number of spots too.
Part4@infosec.pub 10 months ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I think you mean Solomon.