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Rock-eating fungi flourish deep below our feet (news.umich.edu)
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[–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

That equals roughly 250 fungal cells in a single drop—or more than 12 trillion cells in an Olympic-sized pool.

That's a "half a gitaffe" moment right there.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    half a giraffe? what is this reference?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Like in American News they compare everything to something else. The common refrain being we will use anything but the metric system(which I kinda call bullshit on because every science class is taught in metric).

    I think the irl example was "this asteroid is 12 & 1/2 giraffes wide...* Or something along those lines.

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