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When the great pyramids were being built there was still woolly mammoths walking the earth.

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[–] scrodumb@lemmy.ca 122 points 5 days ago (9 children)

The Moon is 384,400 km away from Earth. If you took every elephant on Earth and stacked them one atop another most of them would die.

[–] zout@fedia.io 22 points 5 days ago

I have one related, the diameter of the moon is smaller than Australia.

[–] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 21 points 5 days ago (4 children)
[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen…” and so on.

To be fair though, when confronted by the sheer enormity of the distances between the stars, better minds than the one responsible for the Guide’s introduction have faltered. Some invite you to consider for a moment a peanut in Reading and a small walnut in Johannesburg, and other such dizzying concepts.

https://esl-bits.eu/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Hitchhikers.Guide/08/text.html

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 points 5 days ago

I love this demo.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago

Thankyou! I've seen that before, but lost the link. It's mind-boggling.

[–] thomasloven@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Hey, is that fairy cake?

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If every human held hand in a straight line around the earth a lot of them would drown

[–] kossa@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago

The last people on land just have to be a wee bit stronger to keep the tension, then it works out fine.

[–] LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system

[–] mika_mika@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

You would guess this is useless info, but I can use this fun fact to remember how many suns the earth has also.

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago
[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Did you know that if you took a blue whale, the largest mammal on earth, and laid it end to end, tail to mouth, on a basketball court, the game would be cancelled?

[–] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 4 points 5 days ago

The moon causes tides, but mooning does not involve tiddies

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I’m going to go out on a limb and say all of them would die for one reason or another.

Also, my first experience with the internet back in 1994 was a page of elephant jokes, I feel I’ve come full circle now.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Why full circle, though? Is this your last experience with the internet? RIP aeronmelon's internet experience, 1994-2026

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Let’s be honest, it’s been downhill since the Elephant Jokes website.

[–] jambudz@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Wouldn't you say that they'll all die? Some from lack of air and some from the weight of a gazillion other elephants on top of them

[–] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 1 points 5 days ago

It's hard to imagine any of them would live. I guess one near the top might survive by using the flood of elephant pieces to slow their fall. But an elephant can't survive a ~10 foot fall. That's about 2 elephants tall, and the bottom two or the ones I am most confident are dying in this.