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Bison (mander.xyz)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

Okay, I always knew they were big, but I never would have thought Appa was accurately sized

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

1360 kg

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Bison

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

Or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Bison

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wow that's a lot. But how many pounds is a note?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

5, I think

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The other 7.8 billion of us on this planet would have the biggest objection to "lbs"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

To give you an idea how big it is

Spouts some pish that virtually nobody on the planet understands

Smh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Goodbye dad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Big if true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'd say that man is about 1/8 the volume of that bison so if it's about equal weight per volume then the bison is 24,000 lbs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Holy shit! That bison's head is almost as big as that of Ben Affleck!

Shown here besides average sized for an American adult John Legend: