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Maybe he was using a scale other than weight/volume? Though looking at size, an african elephant is 4m tall, while a small mosquito is 2mm. this is a ratio of
by daurnimator 9y ago
Maybe he was using a scale other than weight/volume?
Though looking at size, an african elephant is 4m tall, while a small mosquito is 2mm. this is a ratio of 2000:1.
- csallen 9y agoExactly. Most people, when thinking about the relative size of animals, evaluate the 2-dimensional area of those animals. We certainly don't tend to consider mass, weight, or even volume. So the metaphor as originally given (mosquito vs elephant) works well.
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- sandov 9y ago>this is a ratio of 2000:1. In which case he would actually have been generous to DuckDuckGo while not being wrong by orders of magnitude. Conclusion: OP meant linear size, not mass. He could have stated it explicitly though, because one would naturally think that he was referring to mass.
- viridian 9y agoThis actually isn't true. Based on the numbers we have, and have been posted in this thread this is unfair to DDG by a factor of almost 2.