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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Seamount twice the size of world's tallest building discovered 'hidden under the waves'

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Seamount twice the size of world's tallest building discovered 'hidden under the waves'

www.livescience.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Scientists aboard the Falkor (too) research vessel have documented, for the first time, an extinct volcano towering 5,250 feet above the seabed in international waters in the Pacific Ocean.
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    twice the size of world’s tallest building

    5,250 feet above

    Just say nearly 1 mile high. Why are reporters so averse to standard measurements?

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      5,280 feet is 1,584 Canada geese stacked on top of each other for our neighbors up north unfamiliar with imperial units.

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        Good bot

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      Where is the problem? It says “1600 meter”, which is perfectly fine and easy to scale. Initially, I was worried because they started with this “foot” thing while still having the word “science” in their name.

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      Doesn’t sound as dramatic or clickbaity.

    • Xanthrax@lemmy.world
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      It was Washington’s dream!

      • teft@startrek.website
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        That was great. Too funny but 100% on point.

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          “You asked about the temperature–”

          “I did not!”

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      Like you are averse to using the SI-System?

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      5000 sounds higher than 1

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      I’d love to know why. Giving me measurements in units of football fields, elephants, Olympic swimming pools, Empire State Buildings, or Mount Everest are fucking meaningless.

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      • teft@startrek.website
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        Just say 1.6 kilometers then. I’m not averse to metric, the measurement was just really close to a mile so I used that.

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          Agreed

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    The hate of article writers for normal units in the headlines

    https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-sheriffs-office-viral-tweet/ ‘Large Boulder Size Of Small Boulder’ Makes Colorado Sheriff’s Office Twitter Famous

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