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> a chameleon subspecies that is the size of a seed "seed" is needlessly vague term here... mustard seed or coconut?
by meetups323 6y ago
> a chameleon subspecies that is the size of a seed
"seed" is needlessly vague term here... mustard seed or coconut?
- asymptosis 6y agoI came here to say the exact same thing. Who even goes around comparing things to seeds anyway? The writer was trying to be cute but just ended up saying something bizarre and stupid.
- stickyricky 6y agoThe article provides a length of 13.5mm which is only 10mm shorter than the distance between the seed comparison and the reported length of the species.
- meetups323 6y ago> 10mm shorter than the distance between the seed comparison This doesn't parse for me. You mean the difference between the two lengths of seeds I gave? Thats 150mm - 3mm, which is more than 10mm longer than 13.5mm.
- hn2fast 6y agoI was going to make the exact same comparison with the mustard seed and coconut, but looking at the numbers, it more or less tracks as being the center of the log scale between the two seeds. Palm seeds in general are exceptionally large compared to anything else, while we're at it.
- airstrike 6y agoWhen somebody says "seed", do you think mustard seed or coconut seed?
- meetups323 6y agoI think of a broad category of items including strawberry seeds, mustard seeds, sunflower seeds, mango seeds and other "pit"s, up to coconut seeds. I think "sunflower seed" would have been a better comparison, as its something a person can actually visualize, not a 3 order of magnitude spanning category.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoIt’s just meant to give a rough visual. The article provides the exact length.
- andrewflnr 6y agoIt fails to give a rough visual, though. The picture of it on a fingertip is much better for that.
- michaelmrose 6y agoFingertips vary in size as well if you want to be maximally pedantic.
- andrewflnr 6y agoYeah, but not through nearly as many orders of magnitude as "seeds".
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoIf you leave out massive outliers like coconuts (which I highly suspect are not what 99.9% of people think of when they think of "seeds"—I realize that's not the case for you), I think the variation would actually be quite similar.
- meetups323 6y agoPoppy seed to mango seed are all "reasonable" seeds IMO. And that's a pretty darn large range, I'd expect almost all chameleons to fall within it.