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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 9 hours ago

how do you slice it??

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  • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    One standard volume giraffe of course, i.e. the volume in m³ an average giraffe would fill (at room temperature and sea level), when passed through a blender. And then half of that

  • nialv7@lemmy.world
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    obviously the scientists meant a spherical giraffe in a vacuum

  • MourningDove@lemmy.zip
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    I love it when I can understand your memes!

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPM
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      Ask questions when you do not. :)

      • MourningDove@lemmy.zip
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        Oh I wouldn’t begin to know what to even ask. I’m a music major lol. But if I think of something, I’ll pipe up.

        • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPM
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          Start with where you are, others will be there too. :)

          • MourningDove@lemmy.zip
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            Thanks! I’ll do that.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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    The Daily Mail readership will not fathom your question. It is a rag for those who would follow MAGA but want to appear intelligent without have either the natural talent or putting in any work to increase knowledge. Baseline racism is a requirement

  • Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml
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    They could have just used inanimate objects not requiring bisection; basketballs, refrigerators, cars, busses, buildings, etc. Why bring sn abattoir into the mix?

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    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.

    • bulwark@lemmy.world
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      I let one cut and the other gets to pick first.

      • 𝔄 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔢𝔰𝔢@lemmy.world
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        This is the way. And from experience, it will result in sub-nanometer size differences.

    • pfwood178@sh.itjust.works
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      Everyone who deals with scientists knows they assume a perfectly spherical, frictionless, giraffe.

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        In a vacuum

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          lol a giraffe would never fit in my vacuum.

          • PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works
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            You have to remember to take the Elephant out first.

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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        In a vacuum

    • Pudutr0ñ@feddit.cl
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      Kids are total commies.

    • Part4@infosec.pub
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      The way Samson would do it.

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        I think you mean Solomon.

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          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.

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            Fewer

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            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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            I think Samson made my luggage.

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              Strength and dexterous fine motor function.

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                He didn’t personally build it.

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      Make sure to get the same number of spots too.

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    This is why real scientists use the only reasonable real world measurement - a perfectly spherical cow in a vacuum.

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      Hmm. Thought they used bananas.

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        Maybe in a shop vac.

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    Dear gods

    How far will these Americans go to not use the metric system… ffs

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      Daily Mail are the sort who think adopting the metric system let all the foreigners into Britain and led to the downfall of empire. Probably in that order.

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      Sadly they’re not American. Containment has been breached.

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      Your bigotry has blinded you so much you couldn’t even see the two biggest, boldest words in the picture.

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    How much is it in bananas?

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    Even if you think height divided by two, why even describe it that way? Giraffes are tall, but not so unfathomably tall that something half its size is incomprehensible. That’s 7-9ish feet. You couldn’t say the size of Andre the Giant?

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      Or just slice it long ways down the middle. Bilateral symmetry makes this pretty easy.

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      People usually measure asteroids by mass (but then, those people are already abnormal, so who knows?), if so, it’s something around the size of a cow.

      Or maybe they could use metric…

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        A big rock, maybe this is the appropriate time to use stone

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      The Youth Today don’t know who that is. Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is? We may never know.

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        Then again, do they know how large a giraffe is?

        Just today, I learned a handy way of visualizing the size of a giraffe. If you took that asteroid that struck off the coast of Iceland, and made a copy of it and put the two of them together, that’s about the size of a giraffe.

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          If that doesn’t get you some Nobel prize, I don’t know what will.

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          Sorry, I need that in dishwashers or ping pong balls

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            I think you just need to translate everything to bananas then go in from there

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      Alex Horn wrote it.

      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        Sorry, I don’t get the reference and the Wikipedia page didn’t help!

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          In his show Taskmaster he is well known for both writing tasks and making jokes through intentionally obtuse language and uncommon phrasing. Frequently the “obvious” interpretation of a task turns out to be non-obvious, or the answer to a riddle is this kind of nondeterministic situation that trips up the contestants and makes for better funny.

          Which is to say, the author of the headline is a troll, and did it internationally to bait this very kind of conversation. You won’t know which way they sliced the giraffe unless you read the entire thing! Of course, after you do, you still won’t know.

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            Ah, no wonder the Wikipedia page didn’t help… the top result when I searched was for a cult leader named Alex Horn. Thanks for the explanation!

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              They meant Alex Horne

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    The anatomical answer is sagitally down the midline.

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    You divide the giraffe vertically down the center 🤦‍♂️

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    I’m surprised they didn’t use immigrants as the unit.

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    Laterally.

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