Asteroid the size of 28 sheep to RAM past the Earth

jpost.com

8 points·ianai··11 comments

> "An asteroid the size of almost 28 domesticated sheep"

they are just trolling now

“The Jerusalem Post is the oldest and largest English-language daily newspaper in Israel and the most-read English news website in Israel and the Jewish world.”

https://m.jpost.com/landedpages/aboutus.aspx

sorry i dont get your point

An internet search seems to indicate sheep farming is a big deal in Israel, so using sheep to give an indication of size might make more sense for a Jewish site?

Why do “they” control sheep-related volume measurements in the media though? Perhaps George Soros is behind this. Curious…

There are a lot of sheep species. From a "journalist" i expect more precision.

The article gives you what you seek.

> Asteroid 2023 HO18 is estimated by NASA to have a diameter of as much as 50 meters. In imperial measurements for American readers, that would be 164 feet or just under 55 yards.

Personally, I think for something as low stakes as an asteroid flying by the earth that having a bit of fun using a culturally relevant size estimation and associated puns is fine, especially considering they didn't just leave it at that and provided the more detailed information.

Get it?! _RAM?!?!!’!!?!!_ HA HAHA HAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAH

So it's 28MB of RAM. Now it makes sense. /s

Some people will do anything to avoid using metric units...

bah, ram ewe

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