Post #2391059
2025-10-18 13:17 UTC
@raulinbonn@social.treehouse.systems @lalonsander@chaos.social Who measures speed like that? Roads list kilometers per hour, not car lengths per hour. It’s a fun fact, but speed is measured in standardized units.
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@raulinbonn@social.treehouse.systems 2025-10-18 15:27
@ClickyMcTicker@hachyderm.io @lalonsander@chaos.social Biologists do. Same thing for strength of the animals not in terms of absolute weight they can lift, but relative to their body weights. Ants are therefore incredibly strong relatively speaking. And that's why the fastest land animal (in relative terms) is not the cheetah, but that tiny mite. In fact quite a few other smaller animals end up higher in the ranking than the cheetah, including cats.