• Cora@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Seriously, I’m American but I still know how long a meter is. Why not just say ‘an 830 meter wide asteroid’? Now I keep imagining a meteor in the shape of a giant whale.

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    1 year ago

    Orca is a bit obscure way to measure something. What would this be strawberries so we’re all on the same page?

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    What a terrible title. Also, that image is of asteroid 243 Ida which is very far away :)

  • iie@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    hell yeah we should measure every object by how many orcas it is

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I mean, I know Orcas are big, but I wouldn’t call 84 of them mooshed together “titanic”

  • MedicsOfAnarchy@lemmy.world
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    Terrible headline due to scaling factors. Is it a “killer asteroid” since we’re measuring in “killer whales”? Do we expect it to break in half and sink into the atmosphere Titanic-ally? Does someone have an orcastick, which is like a yardstick but measures orca lengths instead of yards?