Solomon’s giraffe…
how do you slice it??
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Pulptastic@midwest.social 7 months ago
Bilaterally as is the way.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Probably along the primary axis
kamen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The thing that’s bothering me is that they ended a question with a period. Why, random person on the Internet, why?
passenger@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Reads Daily Mail clickbait, proceeds to blame “scientists”
territorial@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
In other words, a large boulder the size of a small boulder
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
I once saw a snake half the size of a garden hose.
absentbird@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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 🦒
buttnugget@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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”.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 7 months ago
The Smurfs were 3 apples tall.
BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
It’s not the scientists, it’s a single journalist who is popping out these headlines. Some of those caught attention.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Halved with a vertical cut.
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
americans be using anything but the metric system
buttnugget@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Americans be using metric all our lives.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, we measure our soda in liters all the time, but only 2 liters. Other drink sizes are in ounces, and milk is in gallons and pints.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Daily Mail is British
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 7 months ago
British people old enough to have supported the original nazis be using anything but the metric system
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
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.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I was thinking this must be metric because only Europeans with their noses firmly in the air would get it.
0x0@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
What’s with the spherical comments in a vacuum?
tempest@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
One of the first things they will teach you in engineering design is to start by simplifying the model. So if you’re trying to figure out something like the surface area is a fish you assume it’s a cylinder then the math is easy. Same thing with assuming the object is in a vacuum. If you do that you ignore wind resistance and it makes the math easier. You can come back later and take the wind resistance into account.
0x0@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Should’ve used bananas for scale.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Catie can STFU because she doesn’t know what a question mark looks like.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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!
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 7 months ago
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Ah yes the Newfoundland garden giraffe, often times overlooked due to the Canadian House Hippo.
Agent641@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bifurcated down between the eyes
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
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.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 months ago
It’s not like we don’t have imperial units to use. It’s just easier to visualize an object you’re familiar with than 20ft/6m or whatever other unit. Giraffes is a strange choice though.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Friends of mine are expecting a child. They have an app to compare the current size of the baby. It has the weirdest choices:
- Wedding cake (they are always the same size? Depends on the budget right? So if you’re rich your child is bigger than when you’re poor, when it’s the wedding cake size?)
- flat box of chocolates (always the same size? Flat child?)
- small popcorn bucket
- small pinguin (there are so many differently sized small pinguïns)
- cotton candy (last one I had was huge, I feel sorry for the woman with a child that size in their womb)
- maki
- jackfruit
- rhubarb (so it’s a stick shaped child?)
- kitten (a grows the most as a kitten. They are kitten for the first year. It’s like saying the size of your baby is the size of a baby.)
I have no clue what these sizes are exactly. I do know what 10cm or 20cm is.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
People enjoy when things are compared in this way, it’s really not that shocking.
bstix@feddit.dk 7 months ago
It’s more of a journalist thing. They take the words out of your mouth to reach their own conclusion fast and deliver an answer that’ll fit inside the allocated screen time.
“When you heard that people use things instead of measurements to explain the size of other things, exactly how shocking was it to you?”
morkyporky@suppo.fi 7 months ago
Isn’t daily mail in the UK?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
You mean wannabe US? (never truly accepted metric system, even discussed to change back to imperial)
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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 tonthose parties in uni) so I have no grasp on volume or mass.
BillBurBaggins@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Surely a giraffe is nearly uniform density making the distinction between volume and mass irrelevant
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Assume a spherical giraffe.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Even if it is not if you are just looking at the toal volume or mass it makes no difference when you halve it.
Natanael@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Just the left half
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
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
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
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 becoming a bit unwieldy when describing a cargo vessels weight.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
nialv7@lemmy.world 7 months ago
obviously the scientists meant a spherical giraffe in a vacuum
Karjalan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Personally I thought it was obvious that they were talking about the outer half
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
How much is it in bananas?
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 7 months ago
They could have just used inanimate objects not requiring bisection; basketballs, refrigerators, cars, busses, buildings, etc. Why bring sn abattoir into the mix?
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I love it when I can understand your memes!
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Ask questions when you do not. :)
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Oh I wouldn’t begin to know what to even ask. I’m a music major lol. But if I think of something, I’ll pipe up.
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
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
oyfrog@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The anatomical answer is sagitally down the midline.
EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You divide the giraffe vertically down the center 🤦♂️
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Coronal or Sagittarius?
satanmat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Dear gods
How far will these Americans go to not use the metric system… ffs
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Daily Mail are the sort who think adopting the metric system let all the foreigners into Britain and led to the downfall of empire. Probably in that order.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Your bigotry has blinded you so much you couldn’t even see the two biggest, boldest words in the picture.
satanmat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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…
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Sadly they’re not American
Kirca@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is why real scientists use the only reasonable real world measurement - a perfectly spherical cow in a vacuum.
TorJansen@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Hmm. Thought they used bananas.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Maybe in a shop vac.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
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.
T156@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Even then, you may still get complaints unless you can halve it perfectly down the middle.
bulwark@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I let one cut and the other gets to pick first.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is the way. And from experience, it will result in sub-nanometer size differences.
Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 7 months ago
Kids are total commies.
marcos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Make sure to get the same number of spots too.
pfwood178@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Everyone who deals with scientists knows they assume a perfectly spherical, frictionless, giraffe.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I cant remember, what is the friction coefficient foe a giraffe?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Easy. Just imagine only the spots part.