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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because saying "A square 14m x 14m" is too confusing somehow... I hate when they do it for huge surfaces though, like for forest fires as people don't comprehend big numbers like "100 000 football fields", but they sure can understand that 100km is a long distance so a 100km x 100km square is fucking huge.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Did you see that astroid that was hundreds of lions wide?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

No, but I did see the one that was a million antlions across.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

It weighed the same as the amount of jello ppwder required to make five Olympic swimming pools full of jello.