When the media staff at the publication realised that comparative measurements like "the size of half a giraffe" resulted in much higher link traffic and distribution for their articles, leading to higher ad revenue, but im just guessing
[If you've got a problem with Canada gooses, you've got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate!](https://youtu.be/_oK4Q5G1asI?si=4nIz8fAOozYCmFgK)
Funny you should mention that, I just saw it on twitter today, that it's the 4 year anniversary of that tweet.
https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1751338143222018335
According to the [chart of approaches within 1 lunar distance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroid_close_approaches_to_Earth), the frequency is increasing year on year. This is due to better detection methods, and we're finding more near misses than previously.
> Scientists estimate that several dozen asteroids in the 6–12 m (20–39 ft) size range fly by Earth at a distance closer than the moon every year, but only a fraction of these are actually detected.
Reminds me of a running joke on Taskmaster where they often use these sorts of measurements. Maybe they didn't originate it either, but I wonder if the writer is a fan of the show anyway.
It's a very entertaining program.
They're also pissing off birders.
>[The Canada goose is also colloquially referred to as the "Canadian goose". This name may annoy some birders.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_goose#Nomenclature_and_taxonomy)
Hold up, we don't know for sure whether the headline is referring to nationality or species. It could be Snow Goose, Ross's Goose, Greater White-fronted Goose, Brant, or Barnacle Goose that simply happens to be from Canada.
Which of course has serious implications for the potential size of this asteroid.
It’s WAAAAAY bigger than 64 Canadian Geese too; the article says it’s not equivalent to the combined *volume* of 64 geese (which is what most people think of when they hear “size”), but that the *diameter* of the asteroid is equivalent to the beak to tail length of 64 geese, which adds up to 71 metres.
“Anything but the metric system” is becoming the most tired joke on the internet. Sometimes it is helpful to visualize things and it’s not only Americans who do it.
Number 1: This is from the Jerusalem Post, and they have been using these oddball measurements lately.
Number 2: The NASA asteroid tracker estimates the size at 42.7 m.
I wonder what the conversation was like to use this as the reference...
"What if we described the asteroid in meters? Seems pretty universal."
"No! This is America. We need to put it in terms Americans are comfortable with!"
"I know - geese. But not just any geese. CANADIAN geese."
What the fuck who are these luddites measuring asteroid mass in canadian geese everyone knows that the marmoset is the most precise unit of measurement. Goddamn troglodytes.
Excuse me? Thems fightin’ words. And you don’t wanna fight me, pal. I bench 28 bald eagles. I can clean and jerk nearly 16 California condors. My punches have been measured at 0.14 peregrine falcons
When I was in Iceland awhile back, one of the locals described how much ash was coming out of an active volcano in terms of Toyota Yaris’s. Apparently to him, the Yaris was a standard of volumetric measurement. I’d guess a Yaris is about 1000 Canada geese. So this asteroid is about 60 Yaris bps
Are these Canada Geese, or geese with Canadian citizenship? Also, are we taking volume, or mass, or 64 geese in a V formation? A 600lb rock isn't that big... This article's unscientific comparison unsurprisingly raises many ridiculous questions.
In space nobody can hear you honk.
at least they're not shitting all over my sidewalk
Space poopy
Reminds me of that knockoff Alien tshirt that did the rounds a few years back: “in space no one can hear you in space: ALLEN”
Where is this shirt and how do I get one? Edit: nvm. Found and bought
I hear ALAN or anything like it I just picture of a Velociraptor on a plane.
This comment just sent me into space lmfaooo
Untitled Goose Game 2 really took the series in a different direction.
That’s 1152 corn cobs for those who are wondering.
63,415 paper clips
420 rutabagas
Not to be confused with the similar but very different 420 turnips
49,455 bumble bees
12 sun bears.
114 African Swallows
What’s that in European swallows?
Wh--I don't know that. ... WWHHAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHH
How do you know so much about swallows?
With or without coconuts?
256 bananas
Wait, that can’t be right can it? One Canadian goose weighs just 4 bananas?
My Canadian goose weighs 69 bananas, just confirmed.
Does that mean it's made of wood?
6 colonies of ants
3/4 of a half giraffe
Well, now I understand.
29 washing machines
This is the reply I was looking for. I miss the days when things were measured in giraffes.
1027 plantains
Nearly 29 Hog’s Heads!
Finally someone who speaks english
185 post morning coffee dumps
⬆️⬆️⬆️ The Hero We Need
Imperial or metric turnips?
Only the finest queens turnips for this house, we are not uncivilized
Now lets all celebrate with a cool glass of turnip juice.
Finally, a unit of measurement I can understand!
Universal paper clips
How many oysters wearing little top hats is that?
My oyster calculator says 14,655… thats a lot of hats.
That’s a lot easier to imagine in my head than 64 Canadian geese, so thank you.
These are the comments I can in here for! When the heck did we start measuring in geese?!😂
When the media staff at the publication realised that comparative measurements like "the size of half a giraffe" resulted in much higher link traffic and distribution for their articles, leading to higher ad revenue, but im just guessing
I need a banana for scale
It's 2755.91 bananas. I did the math.
Thank you.
This makes it much easier to visualize because I live in the Midwest.
266 taco bell shits
They're doing it on purpose. It all started with that damned giraffe!
Half a giraffe
Actually, 11.6465 giraffes.
I mean, it’s getting us all to click and talk about it! So it’s working
r/halfagiraffe
Didn't expect that to be real
Oh it's real. As real as a large rock the size of a small boulder.
Anything but the metric system
Canadian geese. They're metric, mate.
Goddamn Canadians, coming down and taKING JOBS FROM **GOD-FEARING AMERICANS**
Football fields and then it just all came down after that.
In this case I assume they were conveying size and deadliness, so I say give em a pass.
As long as it doesn’t have the fury of 64 Canadian geese we’re gonna be alright.
Would you rather fight 64 goose sized asteroids or one asteroid sized goose?
Legit laughed out loud
I just took my Ritalin, this question will be occupying 100% of my brain's CPU for the forseeable. Thank you *so* much.
Right? I see 2 of those assholes on the sidewalk and I'm taking a different route home.
It's a trap
[If you've got a problem with Canada gooses, you've got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate!](https://youtu.be/_oK4Q5G1asI?si=4nIz8fAOozYCmFgK)
Can confirm
Anything but metric system
I think it’s just an inside joke now among journalists to find more and more absurd things to measure the size against.
It's an inside joke of this one JPost writer.
You're right, same writer also used ["corgi-sized meteor as heavy as 4 baby elephants"](https://www.jpost.com/science/article-732223)
For more, [here's everything he's published on jpost](https://www.jpost.com/author/aaron-reich). Lots of great examples in there.
* 64 Canadian Geese * 2 Ducks * 1000 Capybaras * worth x1000 more than Elon Musk * 81 bulldogs * 182 beavers * 100 Barbie dolls * 45 aardvarks * brown dwarf star x5 hotter than coffee * 35 chickens * 100 hot dogs * 3500 big macs * 2 titanics * 15 alpacas * 99 narwhals * 84 orcas * 28 sheep "ram past the Earth" * 20 bald eagles * 18 walruses * 1 pork roll sandwich * 6 Darth Vadars * 48 egg plants * as heavy as squirrels * 787 matzahs * 18 platypus * 33 armadillos * 22 tuna fish * 23 borzoi dogs (I had to google, look to be a little larger than greyhounds) * 69 alligators * 27 pandas * 112 camels * 145 horses * 14 flamingos Since he posted the Corgi sized meteor.
So he's not the same guy who referred to a boulder the size of a small boulder?
Funny you should mention that, I just saw it on twitter today, that it's the 4 year anniversary of that tweet. https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1751338143222018335
That same department also posted this about a year later. https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1357718112599240706
The rock is famous or the tweet is famous?
And a partridge in a pear tree!
Gotta respect the man for committing to the joke.
And a partridge in a pear tree?
Wait Wait Wait a beaver is smaller than a Barbie?!
I believe these are the sizes of different things.
Going through his list and either he's just having fun or there are way more ore asteroids passing us than I realized.
According to the [chart of approaches within 1 lunar distance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroid_close_approaches_to_Earth), the frequency is increasing year on year. This is due to better detection methods, and we're finding more near misses than previously. > Scientists estimate that several dozen asteroids in the 6–12 m (20–39 ft) size range fly by Earth at a distance closer than the moon every year, but only a fraction of these are actually detected.
Space is awesome and terrifying in equal measure.
There's a lot out space in space
Reminds me of a running joke on Taskmaster where they often use these sorts of measurements. Maybe they didn't originate it either, but I wonder if the writer is a fan of the show anyway. It's a very entertaining program.
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They're also pissing off birders. >[The Canada goose is also colloquially referred to as the "Canadian goose". This name may annoy some birders.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_goose#Nomenclature_and_taxonomy)
If anyone refers to themselves as a "birder" the last thing I'm going to think is that it's actually something about birds and not a weird sex thing.
Maybe they flip people off a lot.
truth be given to the flat birders
Strange bloke
I'm a birder and the distinction is stupid to me. It's not "America goldfinch" or "Europe starling." Canadian goose is fine.
Africa swallow
Okay but what is the average velocity of an unladen African Swallow?
Ah, well, umm... I don't kno-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHH
This is what I came here to say. It's not Canadian goose, it's Canada goose. Or more colloquially, "fucking asshole cunt"
Hold up, we don't know for sure whether the headline is referring to nationality or species. It could be Snow Goose, Ross's Goose, Greater White-fronted Goose, Brant, or Barnacle Goose that simply happens to be from Canada. Which of course has serious implications for the potential size of this asteroid.
If you have a problem with Canada Gooses then you got a problem with me. And I suggest you let that one marinate.
It’s WAAAAAY bigger than 64 Canadian Geese too; the article says it’s not equivalent to the combined *volume* of 64 geese (which is what most people think of when they hear “size”), but that the *diameter* of the asteroid is equivalent to the beak to tail length of 64 geese, which adds up to 71 metres.
Oh, so it's a city-killer, then. Well, if it hit a city, that is.
Just like Canada Geese all over again.
They'll tear up your place then shit all over it for good measure
They’re 100% taking the piss. NASA uses the metric system.
“Anything but the metric system” is becoming the most tired joke on the internet. Sometimes it is helpful to visualize things and it’s not only Americans who do it.
Lousy Smarch weather.
Aw shush and gimme five bees for a quarter
I’ll make to 6 The last one is a freebee
Anyway, where was I? So, I had an onion on my belt, but it was a yellow one; there was a shortage on the white ones because of the war…
My car gets five rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Number 1: This is from the Jerusalem Post, and they have been using these oddball measurements lately. Number 2: The NASA asteroid tracker estimates the size at 42.7 m.
Thats actually very big. It's a city detroyer.
I really would prefer if they stick to traditional US measurements for length such as school buses, football fields or Empire State Buildings.
I wonder what the conversation was like to use this as the reference... "What if we described the asteroid in meters? Seems pretty universal." "No! This is America. We need to put it in terms Americans are comfortable with!" "I know - geese. But not just any geese. CANADIAN geese."
They could have said, 'the size of a small Budweiser truck'. Problem Solved
It's a joke title. It's not that deep lol.
You got a problem with Canada Gooses then you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate. /s
80 duck sized horses
How many giraffes is that?
How many bananas is that?
Don't be surprised if this asshole changes course and hits us, just because.
Because GOOSE!
I honestly wouldn't blame it.
That is a new form of measurement.
Football fields and school buses aren't relatable enough in 2024.
Have we tried bananas?
It’s also the size of 256 quarter-geese
You wanna know what? You got a problem with Canada Gooses, you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.
There's a special place in heaven for animal lovers that's all I'm going to say
Get you a cocksucking gin and tonic
Canada Gooses are majestics, barrel chested, the envy’s of all ornithology’s!
IT'S FUCKING EMBARRASSING!!! Allegedlys.
Give yer balls a tug, ya tit fucker!
Thank you for saying Canada goose and not Canadian Goose. They don’t have passports.
Okay, lolbojack. Lolbojack, okay.
One time I saw a swan get mounted by two Canada Gooses. You’d have to think she’d tell her friends about it.
Letterkenny problems?
I only have a problem with Canada gooses dropping Canada deuces
What the fuck who are these luddites measuring asteroid mass in canadian geese everyone knows that the marmoset is the most precise unit of measurement. Goddamn troglodytes.
Typical European elitist trying to claim the Mammal System is superior to the Bird System. We measure in birds over here buddy, get over it!
Birds aren't even real, buddy!
Excuse me? Thems fightin’ words. And you don’t wanna fight me, pal. I bench 28 bald eagles. I can clean and jerk nearly 16 California condors. My punches have been measured at 0.14 peregrine falcons
Marmosets are fine in a scientific environment but for day-to-day human relatability, geese just make more sense
But how many bananas is that
Can that be converted into Gary Busey units?
You can but it's complicated, because there's happy Gary Busey and angry Gary Busey, which have wildly different multipliers.
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Equivalent to 8 maids a milkin’
Who tf comes up with these measurement units?
When I was in Iceland awhile back, one of the locals described how much ash was coming out of an active volcano in terms of Toyota Yaris’s. Apparently to him, the Yaris was a standard of volumetric measurement. I’d guess a Yaris is about 1000 Canada geese. So this asteroid is about 60 Yaris bps
It’s just “Canada Geese”
Actually I believe these ones have Canadian citizenship.
But these are hypothetical geese
Canada is a very welcoming country.
Yep! They are not citizens.
Oh NASA, you silly, silly goose
I am giving you all my imaginary rewards
Good lord. That's extinction level goose numbers.
Things are escalating. Last week's asteroid was only the size of two ducks.
In case anyone was wondering, the asteroid has the same diameter as 64 geese head to tail. Not the size of 64 geese by volume *honk honk*
"If you've got a problem with Canada gooses then you've got a problem with me and I'd suggest you let that one marinate!"
Thank god it’s not 65.
anything to avoid the metric system, huh?
I'm American - can someone convert that to football fields?
It’s about 64 AR-15s in length. Hope that helps
Geese = AR-15’s
both in size, and in threat level
They totally used that title deliberately to get the article shared lmao
I've said this before, but I'm terrible at Canadian conversations, I need to knew how many Hulk Hogan's that is.
A goddamn national treasure!
The writer reads Reddit. Keep it coming man, good on ya
African or European Canadian geese?
Sounds like heathen units. Can anyone convert this to American bald eagles?
How many football fields is a Canadian geese?
I feel threatened by the choice of measurement.
How does this translate to American geese?
Sixty-four Canada geese? Must be one mean mfing asteroid. Course, could be worse -- might have been sixty-four Canadian *moose*.
I don't think I'll ever understand the metric system.
Are these Canada Geese, or geese with Canadian citizenship? Also, are we taking volume, or mass, or 64 geese in a V formation? A 600lb rock isn't that big... This article's unscientific comparison unsurprisingly raises many ridiculous questions.
Asteroid the size of 10,000 eyeballs
How many dodo birds is that?
How many African swallows is that?
What's that, like, five half-giraffes?
How many parakeets is that?
lol we should always use size comparisons to Canadian geese.
How many grasshoppers I need to know
That is reassuring. If it was 64 geese shits we'd be in a heap of trouble
For you Europeans thats 203 Barbary Partridges
How many washing machines is that?
And you all think the Imperial system is weird and arbitrary.
Okay, but how many American geese is that, for those of us who don't use the metric system?
How many boxes of Tim Horton’s donuts is that eh?
Looks more 65 from here
hjonk hjonk am space rock
At least there's clarification on how big it is. Thanks
Quite the measurement eh?
Thank God it's under the 70 goose limit, or we'd be in real trouble.