Crossposted from https://lemmy.ml/post/49896717
New dinosaur species with neck as long as cricket pitch discovered in Thailand
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crely7g8xepo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crely7g8xepo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
Crossposted from https://lemmy.ml/post/49896717
12 Comments
Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 45d
the British will measure in anything but Standard
crank0271@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 45d
Since we're converting everything to cricket, assuming an average lifespan of 112 days (an estimate I found online, taking into account the wide variation between the wide variety of cricket species) this is ~489,174,107 cricket generations ago.
frazw@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 45d
That's the length of a test match...
khannie@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 45d
For those like me:
22 yards / 20 metres
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 45d
So a chain.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 45d
Except that a yard is shorter than a metre. Which is a shame because if they were the same we could all get along and use our preferred system without arguing.
kibblebits@quokk.au · 10 pts · 45d
If there is anything on earth that I do not do it is measure things by cricket pitches
daveywaveyboy@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 45d
Thanks to this discovery, now you can!
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 45d
This deviation from the widely accepted soccer field unit must be the spiteful reaction of the British to the separation from the EU.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 45d
I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what the wavelength of a cricket chirp had to do with a neck length. Is the neck specialized in detecting those chirps? How many crickets did that thing eat daily?
Then I spotted the community name. Fuck.
dadarobot@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 45d
pretty sure its referring to the field they play the game Cricket on. like a "football pitch" is a soccer field.
human@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 45d
And cricket wasn't invented until the 16th century. Checkmate, atheists. /s