Can someone convert the measurement to bratwurst for the Europeans?
99 bratwurst
Are we talking Ball Park or Costco sized?
Asking the real questions.
Hoffy
A absurd grump for an absurd headline: What toasts my buns about this article is that it uses hot dogs as a unit of “size” when it really means length. The asteroid is actually the size of millions of hotdogs, because asteroids and hotdogs are both three-dimensional.
I actually first assumed that they meant three dimensional volume when I read "size" and wondered how we saw such a tiny comet. Quite confusing (read: bad) choice of title...
How much is that in beans?
25 cans by volume, or 87 cans if its linear
Obligatory "Americans will use everything but the metric system" joke aside, I wonder how astronomers can even discover an asteroid this small.
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!
Still not very big.
You know, I think that's a good thing, I don't think I'd be excited for an enormous asteroid headed towards Earth.
And here I was thinking that it was 100 hotdogs lined up end-to-end. What a deceptive headline!
Anything but Metric
Who the hell measures anything in hotdogs? I've lived in America my whole life, and I've never heard anything but the Nathan's Hotdog Eating record measured in hotdogs.
I don't know what 100 hot dogs looks like, and I hope I never find out
That’s coward’s talk!
This is a wild article. Someone please tell me it was written by AI. 😶
it was not; using increasingly absurdist units of measurement for this beat is the author's bit and he (correctly, imo) finds it funny
Huh, no kidding: https://www.jpost.com/author/aaron-reich
“Asteroid the size of 6 Darth Vaders to pass Earth on Star Wars Day” lmao
I love that this headline is followed by the "moderator" and "admin" tags by OP so that it looks even more official. Like yes, this is a normal unit of measurement, so says the admin lol
Quick somebody call Joey Chestnut! Only he can save us!
This asteroid is just some kind of elaborate marketing stunt for Armageddon 2, starring Joey Chestnut.
Joey Chestnut: "Wait, wouldn't it make more sense just to train experienced astronauts how to eat competitively instead of the other way around?"
Michael Bay: "Shut the fuck up!"
Is this going to be the Beehaw version of "banana for scale"?
This was a thing on Reddit as well.
I think it came from the headlines in a few articles that would say things like an asteroid the size of a car… and an asteroid the size of an elephant and two giraffes.
I think after a while it became an accepted meme to just report the size of the asteroid by comparing it to something random instead of just posting the metric size.
What size hotdog we talking about here? NASA: Hotdog the size of 50 beans
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