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Reads Daily Mail clickbait, proceeds to blame “scientists”
In other words, a large boulder the size of a small boulder
americans be using anything but the metric system
Daily Mail is British
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.
British people old enough to have supported the original nazis be using anything but the metric system
I was thinking this must be metric because only Europeans with their noses firmly in the air would get it.
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.
Easy. Just imagine only the spots part.
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.
Everyone who deals with scientists knows they assume a perfectly spherical, frictionless, giraffe.
In a vacuum
lol a giraffe would never fit in my vacuum.
You have to remember to take the Elephant out first.
That was a snake.
Git gud
If it’s frictionless, then a proper scientist already knows it’s in a perfect vacuum.
Not necessarily. Two objects can still have friction in a vacuum together.
There was only half a giraffe. It didn’t say half a giraffe and some molecules.
I cant remember, what is the friction coefficient for a giraffe?
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I let one cut and the other gets to pick first.
This is the way. And from experience, it will result in sub-nanometer size differences.
Kids are total commies.
Make sure to get the same number of spots too.
The way Samson would do it.
I think you mean Solomon.
Oh aye, Samson was strength, Solomon had the wisdom required to dissect a baby. Samson would just rip it apart with his bare hands.
Edit maybe that should be bisect. We need less words, there would be much less misunderstanding.
I think Samson made my luggage.
Strength and dexterous fine motor function.
He didn’t personally build it.
Fewer
This proves my point. If fewer didn’t exist I wouldn’t have got it wrong.
This is great! I feel I’m reading a drunk Brit who has some familiarity with the Bible, just a little.
Oi! They’re both cunts!
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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”.
The Smurfs were 3 apples tall.
Bilaterally as is the way.
Probably along the primary axis
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.
Wow!
I once saw a snake half the size of a garden hose.
This is why real scientists use the only reasonable real world measurement - a perfectly spherical cow in a vacuum.
Hmm. Thought they used bananas.
Maybe in a shop vac.
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
Just the left half
The thing that’s bothering me is that they ended a question with a period. Why, random person on the Internet, why?
Indeed, why would they do that.
I don’t know?
Puzzling.
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?
The Youth Today don’t know who that is. Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is? We may never know.
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.
If that doesn’t get you some Nobel prize, I don’t know what will.
Sorry, I need that in dishwashers or ping pong balls
I think you just need to translate everything to bananas then go in from there
Alex Horn wrote it.
Sorry, I don’t get the reference and the Wikipedia page didn’t help!
In his show Taskmaster he is well known for both writing tasks and making jokes through intentionally obtuse language and uncommon phrasing. Frequently the “obvious” interpretation of a task turns out to be non-obvious, or the answer to a riddle is this kind of nondeterministic situation that trips up the contestants and makes for better funny.
Which is to say, the author of the headline is a troll, and did it internationally to bait this very kind of conversation. You won’t know which way they sliced the giraffe unless you read the entire thing! Of course, after you do, you still won’t know.
Ah, no wonder the Wikipedia page didn’t help… the top result when I searched was for a cult leader named Alex Horn. Thanks for the explanation!
The above explanation is correct, but specifically, he uses weird measurements. Like if a task involves counting a distance, he won’t use something reasonable like meters, but how many rubber ducks long.
They meant Alex Horne
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…
A big rock, maybe this is the appropriate time to use stone
How many stones does a big rock weight?
Or just slice it long ways down the middle. Bilateral symmetry makes this pretty easy.
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.
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.
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.
