• worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      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.