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Tyrannus tyrannus is too powerful.

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Now how long is a “car link” in metric?

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I think it's seven metric's.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Also, hard to believe that thing in the image weights as much as a rhinoceros. How much is a rhino in metric?

[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

2300kg is the average of an adult white rhino. Although there are smaller ones, the Sumatran rhino only averages 775kg.

I can see the nanotyrannus weighing 800kg, easily

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So it weighs as much as a rhino, for small values of "a rhino's weight"!

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Seems to be a common practice on that type of article.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

I bet on tyrant^2^ pecking the lizard's eyes out and staying out of range of the short arms. Find the ear holes and eat the walnut brain. Checkmate, your carlink ass.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Can we talk about that absolute unit of a human silhouette? It has hooves