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Easy. Just imagine only the spots part.
Bilaterally as is the way.
Reads Daily Mail clickbait, proceeds to blame “scientists”
Solomon’s giraffe…
In other words, a large boulder the size of a small boulder
The thing that’s bothering me is that they ended a question with a period. Why, random person on the Internet, why?
Indeed, why would they do that.
I don’t know?
Puzzling.
americans be using anything but the metric system
Daily Mail is British
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.
British people old enough to have supported the original nazis be using anything but the metric system
I was thinking this must be metric because only Europeans with their noses firmly in the air would get it.
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.
Americans be using metric all our lives.
Yeah, we measure our soda in liters all the time, but only the 2 litre bottles. Other sizes are in ounces, and milk is in gallons and sometimes pints.
Let’s not go there. T’is a silly place.
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 🦒
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”.
The Smurfs were 3 apples tall.
I once saw a snake half the size of a garden hose.
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!
This is what Big Giraffe doesn’t want you to know
Ah yes the Newfoundland garden giraffe, often times overlooked due to the Canadian House Hippo.
I wish there was Hippos at the white house.
Wow!
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.
Everyone who deals with scientists knows they assume a perfectly spherical, frictionless, giraffe.
In a vacuum
lol a giraffe would never fit in my vacuum.
Git gud
You have to remember to take the Elephant out first.
That was a snake.
If it’s frictionless, then a proper scientist already knows it’s in a perfect vacuum.
Not necessarily. Two objects can still have friction in a vacuum together.
There was only half a giraffe. It didn’t say half a giraffe and some molecules.
I cant remember, what is the friction coefficient for a giraffe?
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I let one cut and the other gets to pick first.
This is the way. And from experience, it will result in sub-nanometer size differences.
Kids are total commies.
Make sure to get the same number of spots too.
The way Samson would do it.
I think you mean Solomon.
Oh aye, Samson was strength, Solomon had the wisdom required to dissect a baby. Samson would just rip it apart with his bare hands.
Edit maybe that should be bisect. We need less words, there would be much less misunderstanding.
I think Samson made my luggage.
Strength and dexterous fine motor function.
He didn’t personally build it.
Fewer
This proves my point. If fewer didn’t exist I wouldn’t have got it wrong.
This is great! I feel I’m reading a drunk Brit who has some familiarity with the Bible, just a little.
Oi! They’re both cunts!
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It’s not the scientists, it’s a single journalist who is popping out these headlines. Some of those caught attention.
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 to those parties in uni) so I have no grasp on volume or mass.
Surely a giraffe is nearly uniform density making the distinction between volume and mass irrelevant
Assume a spherical giraffe.
Even if it is not if you are just looking at the toal volume or mass it makes no difference when you halve it.
It kind of does if you half the volume. If you end up with the hypothetical gas filled half of a giraffe then it’s less mass than if you end up with the meat filled half.
Unless you were only trying to convey volume to begin with then yes it doesn’t make a difference.
An astroid the mass of the meat half of a giraffe and the volume of 5kg of somewhat dry duck feathers…
I’m beginning to think that it would more relatable if it was just stated in kg or m^3 instead
Which part of the giraffe is filled with gas though?.
Are we talking about a cube that is drawn around the giraffe for it’s volume or are we talking about the volume of the giraffe if you submerge it in wter and measure the displaced volume?
No part, thats why I said hypothetical. But it’s the only way to make sense of the claim that volume Vs mass is an issue.
Hopefully we’re not imagining halving the bounding box around the giraffe including the air
Just the left half
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.
Isn’t daily mail in the UK?
You mean wannabe US? (never truly accepted metric system, even discussed to change back to imperial)
Edit: fair point though. My bad.
As a USian, even we are baffled by measuring things in hands and stone.
Exactly. The only real unit is football fields.
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.
People enjoy when things are compared in this way, it’s really not that shocking.
Other people (me) hate it.
Neat, thanks for letting us all know!
Why do people online caste Americans as the culprit when this is clearly from a British source?
Yeah sorry, based on assumption. Because the US (plus a few tiny islands) refuses to switch to metric even though imperial is obsolete and complicated. It’s also usual practice in the US to use weird things for measurements. Cars, dishwashers, etc.
So in this case it was a wrong assumption on my part.
I’m deeply sorry.
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?”
They describe these random things to avoid people talking about giraffes for hours.
obviously the scientists meant a spherical giraffe in a vacuum
Personally I thought it was obvious that they were talking about the outer half
