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One either hates those comparisons or loves them, I personally like them because a hundred billion is way to abstract for me. If you fill your 50 m² apartment t
by danbruc 9y ago
One either hates those comparisons or loves them, I personally like them because a hundred billion is way to abstract for me. If you fill your 50 m² apartment to a height of 1 m with table salt, then you are looking at 400 billion grains of salt. [1]
[1] I once counted the grains in 1 cm³, there were pretty much exactly 8000 of them ignoring the very fine powder from crushed grains. 1 m³ of table salt gives you pretty much one grain of salt for every human on earth.
- mrybczyn 9y agoExcellent visualization, however you have to use the units of measurement appropriate for a space faring people who have visited the moon. So your 500 sq ft apartment is filled to a height of 3 feet with salt. That is 400 billion grains of salt.
- danbruc 9y agoI actually thought about including imperial units - which seems not to be quite the correct technical term as I just found out - but did not want to encourage their further use and therefore decided against including them.
- TallGuyShort 9y agoMore relevantly, those are the units of measurement of a space faring people who later crashed because they couldn't keep their units straight.
- saagarjha 9y agoI really had no idea that people that asked for others to use imperial units existed…