2026-03-11 02:32 UTC
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures @sofiav@mastodon.online
Very nearly (~6.7cm vs ~7.5cm diameter)… I suspect the person who invented this scale was thinking of a softball (~9.7cm)
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@tlariv@mastodon.cloud 2026-03-11 03:18
@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca Or ~13.1 cm in Chicago @hannah@posts.rat.pictures @sofiav@mastodon.online
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@catmisgivings@stranger.social 2026-03-11 03:49
@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca @hannah@posts.rat.pictures @sofiav@mastodon.online I never want to experience softball sized hail
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@xek@hachyderm.io 2026-03-11 04:57
@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca @hannah@posts.rat.pictures @sofiav@mastodon.online The problem with this scale is not the tennis ball - baseball gap, it's the golf ball - tennis ball gap. The addition of a racquetball fills it all in very nicely, and is clearly a more elegant solution. (I would also note that a baseball sized hailstone is almost exactly 50g, which is a delightfully round cutoff for the maximum.)