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The article mentions a "football sized package". Hope there is no confusion between American and European football.
by ape4 6y ago
The article mentions a "football sized package". Hope there is no confusion between American and European football.
- twic 6y agoOr perhaps they mean table football?
- dylan604 6y agoGood gawd, that would be more [sad|funny] than the mm/inch confusion. Can the rover use it's hands or not? Better hope they use American version of Instant Replay than the pathetic VAR implementation as well.
- Someone 6y agoReading https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/Mars_sample_return https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex..., they mean “basketball size”. It seems the BBC thinks their readers do not know how large those are.
- capableweb 6y agoOr maybe BBC thinks it's readers are more familiar with the size of a football (as in soccer, of course) than the size of a basketball (although they are the same, but someone who doesn't know the size of a basketball wouldn't, of course)
- Someone 6y agoI learned something checking that. A basketball (29½ inch circumference) indeed is only slightly larger (27 to 28 inch circumference) than a football. I thought the difference was larger, possibly because of the volume (about 20% more) and weight difference (22-23 oz vs 14-16 oz)