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Solomon’s giraffe…
This is why real scientists use the only reasonable real world measurement - a perfectly spherical cow in a vacuum.
Hmm. Thought they used bananas.
americans be using anything but the metric system
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.
Americans be using metric all our lives.
Yeah, we measure our soda in liters all the time, but only the 2 litre bottles. Other sizes are in ounces, and milk is in gallons and sometimes pints.
Let’s not go there. T’is a silly place.
Dear gods
How far will these Americans go to not use the metric system… ffs
Sadly they’re not American. Containment has been breached.
Your bigotry has blinded you so much you couldn’t even see the two biggest, boldest words in the picture.
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…
obviously the scientists meant a spherical giraffe in a vacuum
Personally I thought it was obvious that they were talking about the outer half
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
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.
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.
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 starting to become a bit unwieldy when describing a cargo vessel’s size.
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 🦒
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”.
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!
This is what Big Giraffe doesn’t want you to know
Ah yes the Newfoundland garden giraffe, often times overlooked due to the Canadian House Hippo.
I wish there was Hippos at the white house.
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 to those parties in uni) so I have no grasp on volume or mass.
Surely a giraffe is nearly uniform density making the distinction between volume and mass irrelevant
Assume a spherical giraffe.
Even if it is not if you are just looking at the toal volume or mass it makes no difference when you halve it.
It kind of does if you half the volume. If you end up with the hypothetical gas filled half of a giraffe then it’s less mass than if you end up with the meat filled half.
Unless you were only trying to convey volume to begin with then yes it doesn’t make a difference.
An astroid the mass of the meat half of a giraffe and the volume of 5kg of somewhat dry duck feathers…
I’m beginning to think that it would more relatable if it was just stated in kg or m^3 instead
Which part of the giraffe is filled with gas though?.
Are we talking about a cube that is drawn around the giraffe for it’s volume or are we talking about the volume of the giraffe if you submerge it in wter and measure the displaced volume?
No part, thats why I said hypothetical. But it’s the only way to make sense of the claim that volume Vs mass is an issue.
Hopefully we’re not imagining halving the bounding box around the giraffe including the air
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
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.
People enjoy when things are compared in this way, it’s really not that shocking.
Other people (me) hate it.
Neat, thanks for letting us all know!
Why do people online caste Americans as the culprit when this is clearly from a British source?
Yeah sorry, based on assumption. Because the US (plus a few tiny islands) refuses to switch to metric even though imperial is obsolete and complicated. It’s also usual practice in the US to use weird things for measurements. Cars, dishwashers, etc.
So in this case it was a wrong assumption on my part.
I’m deeply sorry.
In other words, a large boulder the size of a small boulder
The anatomical answer is sagitally down the midline.
I’m surprised they didn’t use immigrants as the unit.
You divide the giraffe vertically down the center 🤦♂️
Coronal or Sagittal?
