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It is headed towards the earth at the speed of an unladen European swallow since we're using esoteric measurements now.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Ok who the fuck is coming up with these size comparisons ?!what the fuck is 6 peacocks like are they adult peacocks? are they male or female? So many variables. Also funny they have actual numbers for size in the article

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

The article does specify. Six adult male Indian peacocks

As for who came up with it uhhhh... *opens peacock tail as a distraction*

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ok who the fuck is coming up with these size comparisons

Someone looking at the site traffic numbers. The internet is so stupid right now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Are the peacocks "open"?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Peacocks are male

Peahens are female

Peafowl is the collective term for both

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Oh shit I didn't know that thank you helps with the comparison lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I love the clarification, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

England is, obviously. It's Americans may measure everything in Freedom Units, but at least we don't measure weight in "stone." When some weirdos measure stuff with rocks, it's not surprising that they measure rocks with birds.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

6 peacocks is such a vague level of measurement that it borders on incomprehensible

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

difficult to visualize

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is this the same one that weighs as much as an adult rhino? If so, I’m not sure I trust NASA on the peacock to rhino conversion factor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are they comparing the weight of the rhino in space to peacocks on earth? So many unanswered questions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Pretty soon it’ll be “Asteroid the size of your mom headed towards Earth”…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The peacocks are measuring its length, not its weight

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Do your peacocks only exist in one dimension?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

NBC chimes sound discordently

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

First a post about a satellite the size of an adult rhino. Now this.

Did I miss the part in school where metric and imperial were replaced by the Serengeti Standard?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Serengeti Standard

New band name

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Yes, we apparently WILL use anything as a unit of measurement if it means avoiding the metric system. Letting DJT create "Space Force" was such a goddamn mistake, but I guess they had to distract him from the nuclear football somehow that week...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What is the conversion from peacocks to football fields?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I want to know if they are using male or female. Because they vary in size depending on gender

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Are we talking mass, or just surface area?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I'm not comfortable with six peacock asteroids

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Another article with the "asteroid the size of [insert random object here] flies close to Earth!" bullshit title.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

African peacocks or European peacocks?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I dont know. Wait.... no.... AHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

How many chukars is that?

Could we also have it in fruit bats?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Can someone please make a freedom units converter, these measurements are confusing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am so unfamiliar with the size of a peacock that I couldn't even tell you how many peacocks big I am, and I am attached to myself right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I know. They chose peacock. If they're going to be choosing random objects, why not '92 Escorts?' '82 bottles of Soveign du Chateau? Keurig cups? Water filters for a GE fridge, model #CH65YS2GSA6594?

Someone spun a wheel or pulled up ChatGPT - only explanation I can find.