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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 16 points 2 days ago

If that doesn't get you some Nobel prize, I don't know what will.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, I need that in dishwashers or ping pong balls

[–] xylol@leminal.space 6 points 2 days ago

I think you just need to translate everything to bananas then go in from there