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Science MemesBut does the pizza have pineapples on it?
How many double decker buses tall is it?
With such statsian measurements, its hard to tell for the rest of us; are the pizzas big for the US or for normal people?
If you order the largest size pizza in America and it fits through the door horizontally, you're legally permitted to eat the delivery driver.
Big
Anything but metric.
Yeah like two extremely relatable and immediately identifiable sizes that are much more visceral than saying ~13.3-16m and ~38cm
Be really easy to say something like "squid the size of a 15 meter bus with eyes the size of a 38cm pizza"
Now I'm wondering how the search trends look when these stories hit. Does google have a spike of people asking how big a school bus is and/or for average size of large pizza? Is it something they're doing on purpose to gather more data on us?
Well I'm glad you posted the actual measurements because now I actually know how big it is, so thank you for that.
Both school busses and pizzas change in size around the world. Metres do not
I hate to break it to you, but when someone states anything in metric, I immediately have a feel for how large that is. That's because we usually state everything in metric, so we don't need to refer to random stuff and just learn the sizes of everything.
And yet I still have no idea how big the squid is. Buses range in size dramatically.
So do large pizzas.
How much is that in football fields?
About a 200th of a football field.
No they don't? And we can see the proportions.
A "school bus" can be a local mini that's like 8-10?m long, or a medium like 15-metre one. A "school bus" (as it would be near me) can also be an articulated main route bus that has three high schools and a major university on both ends of the corridor, at like 30 metres long.
Ditto pizzas. A "large" is such an arbitrary measurement.
as for "seeing" the proportions... if you gave me that picture and told me it was shrimp-sized (also a bit ambiguous), I couldn't question it. At best, the "pizza" and "bus" provide order of magnitude estimates.
It says bus-sized, and it's long. That makes it a standard bus, not a short bus. And we can assume it's not a city bus, because it says school bus. It's pretty clear what the approximate size is.
What is large pizza? The only size of pizza I know is pizza. How many seats does the school bus have? That can easily change by 15 meters.
In the US, pizzas have basically been standardized by the national chains to be 10 inch (25cm) for a small, 12 inch (30 cm) for a medium, and 14 inch (36 cm) for a large.
Honestly, this is probably the most effective way to communicate circle sizes to me, as I am quite familiar with exactly how big each of those sizes are.
I'm obviously familiar with other lengths as lengths, but for flat circles, there's not really a better intuitive comparison.
In Italy a pizza is a pizza. Size can vary a little bit restaurant to restaurant, but no way you can ask a different size pizza than the one you're being served.
Some places may offer slightly smaller ones for kids, but that's quite uncommon.
As you can see, this is not at all a reliable way to communicate sizes: I have no way to decypher how large a large pizza is.
That's exactly my point. While this may make sense for your average fast food loving American, it just doesn't in the rest of the world.
I’m gonna need you to back up at least 15 Crunchwrap Supremes away from me, me and my Baja Blast feel threatened
How much is that in AR-15s?
Them there's also the problem the fast food corpos made themselves when they expand internationally, they have to downsize their portion sizes because the rest of the world doesn't eat like fast food loving Americans.
bigger than a school bus describes a Bodega, the eiffel tower, Mexico, Jupiter and the entirety of the universe.
Everything except for smaller stuff. You know, things like tires, lug nuts, screws, atoms, electrons, etc.
What about the Uniroyal tire, the Lansing Lugnut , and the JK welding screw?
Was that when she trash talked the actors?
I am the first to shit on the imperial system. I have to admit I agree with you on that one
Is this because Americans are so fucking stupid they can only guess the size of things relative to the size of other things?
Like, say, this here stick. We'll call it a "metre".
Huh? Whar do you use to measure the size of things?
Hey! That's not nice. It's true, but it's not nice.
Can someome PLEASE get a banana down there?
Not possible. Bananas are rich in potassium and potassium explodes upon contact with water.
This here.
Yesterday I read a book with lots of drawn (!) illustrations of the largest insects to a 5yo. It doesn't work.
But is it a metric pizza or an imperial pizza?
How many pizzas in a school bus?
About 8 pizzas the size of small/large boulder.
Metric you filthy barbarian!
Its not metric but thats amore.
No that’s a squid, not an eel.
This is perfect for the Anything but Metric comm!
Also nice detail that it's a large pizza not small oder medium 👌
Found the German.
Not enough capital Letters on the Nouns
What's going on in the left photo? Does the squid have bioluminescent danglers at the front?
Yeah, it's wild they do actually have large "photophores" at the ends of their arms. More info here:
https://www.livescience.com/animals/squids/elusive-octopus-squid-with-worlds-largest-biological-lights-attacks-camera-in-striking-new-video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taningia_danae
Taningia danae, the Dana octopus squid, is a species of squid in the family Octopoteuthidae, the octopus squids. It is one of the largest known squid species, and it has one of the largest photophores (light organs) known in any organism.
Holy crap, that's terrifying and so cool! Thanks for the info!
Maybe it’s like my cat when I catch her on my security cams in night mode. Fuckin lasers.
Goddammit, Donut
Lasers, how do they work?!
What used to be considered a large pizza is now sold as extra large and it really isn't as big as an old large pizza its like what a medium was . So this thing has a big ass body and beedie little eyes
original article here: https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/science/evidence-of-giant-squid-spotted-off-australia-in-historic-find/
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/giant-squid-edna-australia
btw the second image is from 2020
https://schmidtocean.org/schmidt-ocean-institute-offers-online-educational-science-content-for-students/
Thank You!
This being the NY Post, I wasn't sure about factuality. There's nothing in the pictures that would indicate its size.
They've been washing up on shore for over a century. What do you mean 'evidence discovered'?
they got a bus next to one and put pizzas over its eyes
put pizzas over its eyes
We all know that pizza was still eaten.
New pizza topping, Squid Eye!
You mean squid eyes?
No, squid eye.
I'm going to need a bigger jig.
How big in terms of burgers
at least 3 burgers
This is the most terrifying thing I've ever studied furiously
