What is Digg?211 Comments
- isuisorisuaint, on 10/10/2007, -14/+291Crikey!
- theysayjump, on 10/10/2007, -29/+2551.) It's not a Stingray
K.) It's not 60 square feet
12.c.) You managed to spell "ginormous" two different ways in the same sentence. - TehDoctor, on 10/10/2007, -23/+207Steve Erwin died as he lived, with animals in his heart.
yeah, I'm going to Hell.... - kakwakas, on 10/10/2007, -7/+105Digg has spoken: It is no longer 'too early' for Irwin jokes.
- npinski, on 10/10/2007, -6/+66not a stingray? not 60 square feet?
god help you.
let's do some math. You know math? M.A.T.H.
No actually first some reading. "The Giant Freshwater Stingray has a diameter of up to three metres."
Diameter of 3 meters? A radius of 1.5. That's 4.9 feet. 4.9*4.9*3.14 = over SEVENTY FIVE square feet. - wildfire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+59I need a larger grill.
- TheAkolyte, on 10/10/2007, -2/+39Does steve irwin REALLY need a blessing anytime a stingray is mentioned?
- musicphreke, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33Mirror:
Zeb Hogan,a biologist from the University of Reno has launched the Mega Fish project in conjunction with the National Geographic Society, in a last ditch attempt to save “the real-life Loch Ness monsters and Bigfoots of the aquatic world.”
Various giant freshwater fish species are perilously close to extinction. Far more than smaller species, they have been decimated by fishing, pollution and dams.
“From the point of view of the fish, there’s nothing worse than a dam.”
Says Hogan.
“Dams block upstream migration, destroy spawning habitat, and can turn large stretches of river into ecological wastelands.”
Many of these species are simply massive. The Chinese Paddlesfish, which lives in the Yangtze River weighs half a tonne and can grow to a length of seven and a half metres, whilst the Giant Freshwater Stingray has a diameter of up to three metres.
http://i13.tinypic.com/4zodgf9.jpg - flernk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+34http://i13.tinypic.com/4zodgf9.jpg
/hijack - nreynolds, on 10/10/2007, -4/+32nah, different sentences.
- ukdave, on 10/10/2007, -5/+29That's a big ***** fish.
- facelesscoward, on 10/10/2007, -3/+26Apparently, it's in Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ginormous - gwinerreniwg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Seeing the ribcage on the top of that thing makes me all queasy - it reminds me of those face-huggers in Alien
- aoneal417, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Maybe.
- Bosiljevac, on 10/10/2007, -4/+23Yes, too big.. we have to kill it.
- SlvrEagle23, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Don't you get to fly those in Outland?
- BrissyBoy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14i suppose at least it wasn't described as AWESOME
- afx1, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14it's quite illuminated. backlit monitors ftw
- TheDHC, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13that could kill 9 steve irwins
- zzz@tkz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I can link broken ***** too!
http://sdfasfsdfasd.com - vlademonkey, on 10/10/2007, -9/+19Site is loading slow, coral cache got it tho:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com.nyud.net/?p=149 - alexanEmpire, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12into whose mouth? Yours?
- Gonz037, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13That is what I came in here to say, I'm happy to see it in the top spot!
- Wynner3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11I don't think I will ever go swimming in china.
- TheAkolyte, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12So is ginormus. Languages is just a means of expression, and if you understand what "ginormus" means it's a word.
- arashinogarou, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9YOU should be buried for retardation. Simple fifth grade math tells us that 60 sq. ft. can be calculated from either 6 ft by 10 ft or, if you find the square root of 60, approximately 7.7 ft by 7.7 ft. Since the fish had an estimated diameter of 3 meters (just over 9 ft), and it is somewhat circular, I would say it's possibly a bit more than 60 sq. ft.
Now go back to the fifth grade and study for a change. - flernk, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15http://i13.tinypic.com/4zodgf9.jpg
- Walkboss, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12No one said it did. We don't know the number of hits so all there is to go by is number of diggs.
I don't know what's more annoying. People complaining about "DOWN AT * DIGGS?!" or the people who repeat "Diggs does not equal hits!" ad ***** nauseum. Please, give it a rest. - TexanRudeBoy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13Just because a word is in the dictionary, it doesn't make it's use acceptable. There are all sorts of slang in the dictionary.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Their server, however, is not ginormous.
- duccodude, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13No.
- N1NJ4hippie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Stop making my avatar look bad by commenting!
- hoppdawg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7The 3 meter diameter = 9.8ft, so the radius is 4.9ft.
pi * r^2 = 3 * 4.9^2 = 72 square ***** feet. - I'm here all night - Walkboss, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Remember what I said about ad nauseum?
- tetsura, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7you guys are very sad
- mobtek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7We're going to need a bigger boat!
- linuxrebel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7According to the article it is. "The Giant Freshwater Stingray ........"
- travis712, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9DEAD =(
- karel747, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9LOLCATS
- legopacific, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Here's where the pic actually came from:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildplaces/flm/photos.cfm
"Giant freshwater stingray or Freshwater whipray (Himantura chaophraya). The disk of this fish measured 202cm and 413cm from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail. Himantura chaophraya may be the largest species of freshwater fish in the world. More species of giant fish occur in the Mekong River than in any other river on earth. Populations of the giant stingray and other large-bodied Mekong fish are in decline." - TacticalPenguin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6attention person who lacks estimation skills: that is way more than 6 square feet.
- TacticalPenguin, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10You can say ginormous but you sure can't spell it.
- TomRemixed, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Think of the stingrays people. Wonder how they feel for once. There are only a few outspoken stingrays that give stingrays a bad name.
- gemineye, on 10/10/2007, -0/+66ft by 10 ft? looks close to me
- Neiby, on 10/10/2007, -7/+12Dugg down for using ginormous. I'll have someone else digg you down for misspelling it.
- Tabris, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5And then discussions about the explanation of the ruined joke mutilate the already dead joke.
- Neiby, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7It's pretty darn big, though. It looks more like 45-50 square feet, though. Regardless, that's big.
- Dwarfthemike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5you're not suppose to say the part about the penis. it ruins the joke.
- Sephrra, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The guy in the blue shirt is in for a world o' hurt.
- mikes1, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8At least "awesome" is a real word.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 206 discussions
Browsing Digg on your phone just got easier with our enhancements to the 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is 