Spyke
mander.xyz

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

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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.

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

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lemmy.ml

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

We have words you know.

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Mr_Blottreply
lemmy.world

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

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

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lemmy.world

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

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

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.

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lemm.ee

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

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kbin.social

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

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

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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.

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

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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

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