Bruce Banner Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 BBC News just did a piece on the new aircraft carriers. The size was given in units of football pitches, jumbo jets and the Niagra falls, with no mention of normal units of measurement. Feet, yards. metres, tons, tonnes, kg, I don't care which they use, but football pitches etc . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 How many Olympic size swimming pools could the Niagara Falls fill in an hour? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuG III Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 I still work in Big Bens and London Buses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowflux Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 (edited) I thought African Elephants and Blue Whales were the standard journalistic units of mass? Edited July 4, 2014 by snowflux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Banner Posted July 4, 2014 Author Share Posted July 4, 2014 The size of Wales. Too easily confused with whales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 The size of Wales. Wales has over 1680 miles of coastline. That's more than 17000 Blackpool Towers long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 I've read a bit about chaos theory and I thought it was self repeating the more and more you magnify it and therefore infinitely long? Blackpool Tower? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Anyone with a child will know that the standard International unit of length is a Dinosaur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Knimbies who say No Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 (edited) No mention of Concorde or Western Europe? Edited July 4, 2014 by Joan of The Tower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 The size of Wales. It is fun standing on the Gower pointing and shouting "Look, there be Wales!" to tourists. They get all excited for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I've read a bit about chaos theory and I thought it was self repeating the more and more you magnify it and therefore infinitely long? Yep, it depends on how big your ruler is. The smaller your instruement of measurement is the bigger something becomes... or something like that... They explained this on the programme 'Coast' when they measured a tiny inlet (It might have been enormous in reality) using various different sized measuring devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Yep, it depends on how big your ruler is. The smaller your instruement of measurement is the bigger something becomes... or something like that... They explained this on the programme 'Coast' when they measured a tiny inlet (It might have been enormous in reality) using various different sized measuring devices. It's because coastlines are fractal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Everything should be measured in pieces of string. "That's as long as fifty pieces of string!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 How many jumbo jets fit in an Olympic-size swimming pool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Banner Posted July 5, 2014 Author Share Posted July 5, 2014 I forgot to mention it yesterday, but in a later showing, they stated, "The ships wheel is, amazingly, only as big as the steering wheel of a Formula One car". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 How many jumbo jets fit in an Olympic-size swimming pool? Have all Olympic size swimming pools been searched for wreckage of flight MH370? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I forgot to mention it yesterday, but in a later showing, they stated, "The ships wheel is, amazingly, only as big as the steering wheel of a Formula One car". About half a baguette in diameter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Have all Olympic size swimming pools been searched for wreckage of flight MH370? About a Niagra fall's worth of jumbo jets in sea volume has been searched so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 The eccentric millionaire Gulbelkian used a customised London Taxi cab as one of his personal cars. He would tell his friends "apparently, it will turn on a sixpence - whatever that is." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 It's because coastlines are fractal. As is Julia Set! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Why cant we just measure everything by Lego pieces. I cant imagine anything until compared with a flat 2x4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobloblob Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Everyone knows that Dinosaurs are measured in units of Blue Whales. EDIT: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 ZOMG!!!!! London Buses! How on earth did we forget those? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 would Niagara falls be more useful in combat ? ....you could drown your enemy i Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilf Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 'Tis a very commonly used unit of land mass in the media though as in ...."x is roughly the size of Wales". In fact, you may even hear it today. Once you notice these things they just crop up all the time. A well know psychological phenomenon. It's called Baader Meinhof Phenomenon. http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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