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[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses

Anything except metric.

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do these school buses come with gun shots?

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would little craters that look like bullet impacts count?

[–] X@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago

Don’t see why not

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the only unit of public transportation Americans will understand.

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But what kind? Flat face? Oldschool? Short bus?

There are many sizes of school busses!

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Easy. The asteroid is the size of 5 minivan school busses that pick up the one kid isolated in the suburb development that actually belongs to the next town over but overstepped the border because the farm it replaced was owned since before the state existed. Really not that hard to figure out

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago

See now that I can imagine the size of.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The twin peaks kind of school bus