• cattywampas@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    People clown on these kinds of headlines as if the average metric user has an intuitive feeling of what size 0.012 cubic meters is.

    • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 hours ago

      To be fair, if you pick your scales such that the numbers read ridiculous, nothing has an intuitive feeling. There’s nothing much intuitive about a plane flying at an altitude of 16 thousand feet either, no matter how much they closetedly fetishise footstuff, in just about the same way there’s nothing much intuitive about measuring the size of a star in meters.

      • hope@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        So about the size of my bathroom trash can, or the size of my mother-in-law’s corgi, then.