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2023-03-31 Science & Technology

Asteroid the size of 18 platypus to fly closer to Earth than Moon - NASA

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-31 01:10|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 This is what you get when you tell engineers to be more 'inclusive'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-31 08:13|| 2023-03-31 08:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Americans will use anything to avoid the metric system.

And I want the size of it in gumballs.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-03-31 09:03|| 2023-03-31 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 and please calculate the speed of the asteroid in furlongs/fortnight.

Posted by Warthog 2023-03-31 09:53|| 2023-03-31 09:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Is it weighing in at nineteen stone?

Posted by Raj 2023-03-31 10:23|| 2023-03-31 10:23|| Front Page Top

#5 #2 "How many jellybeans in this ~~jar~~ asteroid?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-31 10:37|| 2023-03-31 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 A laden or unladen platypus?

Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-31 12:24|| 2023-03-31 12:24|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Heh

Posted by Frank G 2023-03-31 13:47|| 2023-03-31 13:47|| Front Page Top

#8 I am under the impression the platypus is a smallish kind of a proto-mammalian animal that lives in dens dug into the banks of the small streams in Australia in which it hunts even smaller creatures. But exactly how big the thing is, I couldn’t say without looking it up, nor whether Australia is actually where it is to be found... or even if proto-mammal is an actual term or just something I made up.

Quite possibly this is not a useful measure of size.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-03-31 18:16|| 2023-03-31 18:16|| Front Page Top

#9 I reckon I'm starting to like
This kid from the Post, Mr. Reich,
Who takes so much pleasure
In spending my leisure
And measures 1 world record pike.
Plus or minus a pickerel or so.

Posted by Sonny Ebbuling4332 2023-03-31 22:52|| 2023-03-31 22:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Or how about 1/8 CheshireMammoth?

Posted by Sonny Ebbuling4332 2023-03-31 22:58|| 2023-03-31 22:58|| Front Page Top

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