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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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[–] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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

[–] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 7 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*

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago

Are the peacocks "open"?

[–] stoned_ape@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Peacocks are male

Peahens are female

Peafowl is the collective term for both

[–] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 1 points 7 months ago

I love the clarification, thank you!

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 7 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.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

difficult to visualize

[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 16 points 7 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.

[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] rsh@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

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

[–] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The peacocks are measuring its length, not its weight

[–] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do your peacocks only exist in one dimension?

[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

NBC chimes sound discordently

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 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?

[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 2 points 7 months ago

Serengeti Standard

New band name

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 7 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...

[–] vala@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What is the conversion from peacocks to football fields?

[–] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

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

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Are we talking mass, or just surface area?

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

I'm not comfortable with six peacock asteroids

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Swallowtail@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

African peacocks or European peacocks?

[–] Master@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago
[–] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago
[–] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

How many chukars is that?

Could we also have it in fruit bats?

[–] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 7 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.

[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 1 points 7 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.