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loloquwowndueoyesterday at 4:57 PM7 repliesview on HN

Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement


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fnordpigletyesterday at 5:00 PM

It’s a real condition. For me it’s jet liners of various makes. I had to rewrite the quote as “0.005 Boeing 777’s” to be able to comprehend just how strong those snails teeth are.

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nrdvanatoday at 2:32 PM

It turns out an astroturf American football field probably weighs 1700 tons, mostly from the 6 inches of stone base under the astroturf. So 3300lbs is .00097 football fields.

drdectoday at 3:04 PM

Approximately ten defensive linemen

Rooster61yesterday at 6:51 PM

Wait, I can do that? Here I've been using Smoots this whole time (with great difficulty might I add).

rz2kyesterday at 9:41 PM

Obviously it weighs 10,300 baseballs, which are 26 football fields long.

isattyyesterday at 8:25 PM

A football field is by far a better measurement than 3300 one pound bags of sugar.

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bell-cotyesterday at 5:48 PM

Understandable, with how many there are to pick from, and the wiggle room in the longest ones -

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/As...

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