The problem is not just that the numbers are made up, they are in the wrong units. Watts is not a unit of energy.
It’s like saying; a cow wants to eat an apple. Each apple weighs five liters. Therefore the cow would need a mouth 2 kg across. It would take the cow seven metres to eat the apple.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For starters, the average owl doesn’t weigh 16 pounds, that’s immediately proven false with a simple Google search. The smallest is an ounce, the largest just over 9 pounds.
On top of that, I can’t find any species that migrates from Europe to America…
So false from the jump.
snowe@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
There’s a few hundred that migrate from eastern NA to Europe and Africa, but no owls. Owls don’t really migrate at all. I did all the calculations in a different comment in this thread and the shitpost is so off it’s incredibly easy to disprove.
outdoors.stackexchange.com/a/15688 datazone.birdlife.org/flyway/…/east-atlantic
jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I should have specified, any species of owl that migrates from Europe to America… Not sure what that image is on about. Everything seems wrong.