• gina@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Kind of a ridiculous size comparison. I can touch the top of my refrigerator, but that doesn’t make me the size of one…

    • Flying Squid@mander.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know… I’d say comparing a 6.5-inch spider to a basketball is pretty close.

      And I’m never going down any Mexican mines.

      • blackbrook@mander.xyzEnglish
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        1 year ago

        A basketball is significantly larger than that. And the article title currently says “softball” which is more like it. Perhaps they changed that to correct the distortion since it was posted here.

        • gina@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I emailed the author last night to let her know. She got back to me really quick and said they would correct, which I appreciated.