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Asteroid the size of 100 hot dogs to pass Earth on Monday - NASA (www.jpost.com)
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[–] dope@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a wild article. Someone please tell me it was written by AI. 😶

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it was not; using increasingly absurdist units of measurement for this beat is the author's bit and he (correctly, imo) finds it funny

[–] nzodd@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ndr@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

“Asteroid the size of 6 Darth Vaders to pass Earth on Star Wars Day” lmao