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[-] knokelmaat@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

The "size" of 100 hot dogs is misleading. It is not a pile of 100 hot dogs to demonstrate the volume of the asteroid, but a line of 100 hot dogs to demonstrate the diameter, which is 16 meters. So in volume, this is a lot more than 100 hot dogs!

[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Plus_a_Grain_of_Salt@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

You know, I think that's a good thing, I don't think I'd be excited for an enormous asteroid headed towards Earth.

[-] lucien@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

And here I was thinking that it was 100 hotdogs lined up end-to-end. What a deceptive headline!

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