this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Anything But Metric

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Americans will use anything but metric

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[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Where's Carlos beside a car?

They never include a proper size comparison!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

He’s carless.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The turtle has "the site of a car", 2.4 m apparently.

[–] original_reader@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

Then they might have found even bigger individuals in the meantime.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

The sources I've found are not specific. The turtle with "the size of a car" might be 2.4 m or up to 3 m.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

How many bananas for scale are in a Carlos?

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is Stupendemys geographicus from Urumaco, Venezuela, and Rodolfo Sánchez from Coro, Venezuela.

[–] alykanas@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

Imagine the size of the turtles head