stopthatgirl7Giant asteroid the size of 1,000 capybaras to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA
While the asteroid is traveling too far to pose any risk to the Earth, a possible impact event with it could become a worldwide catastrophe.
maajWho the fuck measures anything in capybaras? I hope the goddamn shit hits us at this point. We’re living in Idiocracy.
KecessaThat’s the point, NASA is making fun of all the news sources that can’t be arsed to give actual measures.
“The forest fire is as big as one million football fields!” means fuck all, but saying “Equivalent to a square 75km by 75km.” that’s a measure that actually means something.
What’s really going to fuck with you is that the fire is mostly confined to the boundaries, so a fire would be better measured by units of length. It’s not like you have 75 square kilometers simultaneously on fire, you’ve got 75 square kilometers burned, as in past tense, and some amount of the outline of that is currently on fire.
How do you measure the perimeter on fire though? Do you go tree to tree, leaf to leaf, or trace the perimeter of each separate leaf?
