• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Your linked source doesn’t appear to list that number (It lists 8 cm a minute).

    Perhaps you (or a large language model, if you’re using one) has it mixed up with this:

    “Snails have been measured at speeds of 0.048 kilometres per hour.”

    From this source.

    Also, 1 cm tall would be a very small snail… Approximately the size of your smallest fingernail.

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      7 days ago

      8 cm/min * 60 min/h * 1e-5 km/cm = 0.0048 km/h

      If I’m not completely mistaken.

      I’ll admit that the “1 cm tall” is guesstimated based on my memory of the snails in my garden.