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It's journalism. It's not about accuracy or clarity, but the impression it makes on the reader. All those zeroes make a bigger impression.
by blowski 11y ago
It's journalism. It's not about accuracy or clarity, but the impression it makes on the reader. All those zeroes make a bigger impression.
- scarmig 11y agoAnd I thought analogies in scientific journalism were annoying. I certainly prefer them to this. What's biggest: 7000000000000000000000 grams 700000000000 gigagrams 70000000000000000000000000 milligrams The mass of Ceres The mass of the water currently in the Pacific Ocean The mass of the Earth's atmosphere The mass of Mt Everest
- thfuran 11y agoThe one about the ocean takes up the most bytes. It's biggest.
- cabirum 11y ago57900000000000 refrigerators http://recoveringphysicist.com/23/journalistic-units-of-measure http://recoveringphysicist.com/23/journalistic-units-of-meas...
- schoen 11y agoYikes, the two of these that are largest seem to be well within the same order of magnitude, and I'm not sure how to be sure which is bigger!
- S4M 11y agoIt's true, but the article almost sounds like "Lol Pluto shouldn't have nitrogen anymore but it has. Santa Claus?"
- sp332 11y agoThat's not journalism, that's poetry.