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Next-gen optical disk can store over 14,000 4k movies (www.digitaltrends.com)
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[–] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 80 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Asteroid the size of 64 Canada geese to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA

I'm not even making this up ....

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The US really will do anything to avoid using metric lol

[–] Nurgle@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Canada geese are metric tho…

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago

Our ongoing war with Canadian geese are actually the reason why we didn't convert to metric. The geese have a harder time converting their flight paths if we list things in imperial.

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

Canada geese are whatever the fuck they want.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago

That's hilarious.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's to be interesting for readers.

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It also stands out a lot more than using meters. And gets people to talk about the ridiculous unit of measurement. In short, it drives engagement, which is the point of the title these days.