Because F#CK you, metric system!

My favorite estimate of size:

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Three states — Arizona, California and Nevada — have agreed on a plan to conserve at least 3 million acre-feet of water by 2026 — roughly the equivalent to the amount of water it would take to fill 6 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.

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That Randall gave a volume for Broca’s area bothers me (probably more than it should)

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With added spurious accuracy of decimal places in the body of the article. We can’t possibly just quote temperatures in Celcius as they were in the original Instagram post.

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I was thinking the same thing when I read that

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Some further expansions of an article I think hit here:

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Why not a pinball? Unless they’re trying to insinuate that the earth is flat…

The Croods Sloth GIF by The Croods: A New Age

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I’m sure everyone is as relieved as I am to see the typo is fixed, and Broca’s area is no longer a volume.

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Also, Science FTW.

Relevant part:

For comparison, H. naledi’s brain was around the size of a grapefruit, and a human brain is the size of a medium cantaloupe.

Archive version: https://archive.ph/F4x4i

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Now another one :slight_smile:

From this thread

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“Sheep to ram” sounds like a size range.

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Soda can?? My preferred measure for length is the pop can.

Also, sorry about your short tenure as the long-tongue champ Bisbee. You are still a good boy.

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At least they’re being topical:

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It’s going to capsize a comms satellite, isn’t it.

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