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Just as a side note, that's such a weird thing to compare against... What intuition does the average reader have about the price of container ships? If anything
by kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
Just as a side note, that's such a weird thing to compare against... What intuition does the average reader have about the price of container ships? If anything, I learnt that container ships are less costly than I would have guessed...
- drawnwren 9y agoI now have exactly one conversion of value between Instagram and cargo ships. I'm not sure this cleared anything up for me.
- garmaine 9y agoWell it’s at least visually comparable to the more standard units of measurement : the VW bug and football fields.
- lostlogin 9y agoIt’s probably a misunderstanding of common media units of measure. If an Olympic swimming pool or an Empire State Building are a valid unit of measure, why not a container ship?
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoThose are probably weird too, but most people have some idea of how tall tall buildings are (even if they haven't been to NYC), and likewise have probably been to a pool.