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Just to put it into perspective:

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (7 children)

If only there were a more convenient way to express 0.1cm.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

2.0712373074578E-7 Leagues I find the most convenient and before you ask of course I am talking in Persian miles.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Unsolicited dick pics are generally frowned upon...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

It's approximately 0.00000497 Furlong

[–] 50_centavos 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's about 1/76th the height of a Big Mac from McDonald's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

American or European?

[–] Everythingispenguins 2 points 10 months ago

Big Macs are a measure of weight not distance. Though you can also use them as a measure of force as long as you assume they are in 1G.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's about one thirty-oneth attoparsec.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If I learned something from star wars is that parsec are a unit of time, so get out if here!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

200000 beard-seconds tall.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

How about 6.684587e-15 Astronomical Units?

[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (3 children)

0.1 of a cm... Also known as a millimeter.

We have words you know.

[–] Mr_Blott 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

For the yanks, that's 1/60000th of a washing machine

[–] Everythingispenguins 6 points 10 months ago

But I need to know the length in first downs. Can you do the conversation?

[–] Eranziel 2 points 10 months ago

What the crap kind of washing machine do you use that's 20 storeys tall?

[–] whostosay 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] LengAwaits 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's easier to represent as 0.000001 km, imo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I really think 0.000000001 Mm is clearer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I prefer (3^2 -2^3 )^(1/2) /(10^9 )^-3 +(74^57 /2^37 /37^2 )/(2^20 *37^55 )-1 qm

[–] w1Ldc4rD 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Why wouldn't they just say a millimeter? .1cm is something a non metric user would say.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I think you’ve answered your own question!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's common for scientists to prefer a decimal point in their measurements because they are inherently limited precision, but "1 mm" leaves some ambiguity as to whether you meant 1.0 mm or 0.1 cm. It's a matter of significant digits, since leading zeros are ignored.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It is literally prefized with "roughly".

[–] frunch 1 points 10 months ago

As an imperialist, i would have opted for 1/256"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tiny mushrooms spook me because all I can think of is them growing inside my lungs and on my body hooking me into the network

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eat a bag of psilocybin mushrooms and think about why being plugged into the mushroom consciousness scares you...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

That... Sounds like an awful thing to do

[–] Asudox 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Both cute and deadly probably.

[–] angrystego 6 points 10 months ago

But you'd probably have to pick quite a few to get poisoned, if it even is poisonous :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Hey there little fun guy!

[–] Supervisor194 5 points 10 months ago

Let's play a game! It's called "Psychoactive or Deadly?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Looks like those trichomes are starting to go amber, it's about time to harvest!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That's just about how small I like mushrooms cut in anything I eat.

[–] VelvetStorm 3 points 10 months ago

If you are interested in this kind of stuff this is called Macro photography and it can be very complicated or confusing when you start but it's very rewarding and after you get the basics it's not hard. For some truly mind blowing photos I suggest you check out Alison Pollack on Instagram she has placed in several world wide macro photo Competitions and she specializes in fungi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

ok but how does it taste?

[–] agent_flounder 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

0.04" is about 3/64"

That's damned tiny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Found the American! Now do feet, thumbs, eyelashes and football fields...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Wizard_Pope 1 points 10 months ago

Gas fuck? Where?

[–] YoFrodo 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn't it slime mold and not a mushroom at all?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It's a mushroom:

Mycena subcyanocephala is a species of fungus,[1] which has its habitat in the tropical parts of Taiwan. It has been spotted eight times. Mycena subcyanocephala is one of the smallest mushrooms in the world, with buttons about 1 mm tall. The species belongs to the Mycenaceae family, with Mycena interrupta being its closest relative.

From Wikipedia

[–] angrystego 3 points 10 months ago

It isn't, but you're right that slime molds can be this cool!