• silentknyght@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Until your post, I thought the description was pretty good. I can visualize a Corgi. I can visualize 4 elephants. I can visualize the mass of those 4 elephants in a Corgi shape. It gets a general idea of magnitude across and it’s a neat mental picture.

    Four Baby elephants, though? I have a really hard time with that. Why 4 of them? Is that like 1 adult? I can’t visualize a baby elephant relative to a Corgi, let alone to an adult elephant. It’s all complicated.

    I think they had a good idea but they fucked up the execution.

    • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I think the article author or maybe editor (whoever makes the titles) just got tunnel vision on trying for a relatable animal based comparison and nobody told them to stop.