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You have to realize, using miles to convey the "sense of scale" to non-Americans is ironic because... we can't be bothered to understand how much 10000 square "
by spdionis 6y ago
You have to realize, using miles to convey the "sense of scale" to non-Americans is ironic because... we can't be bothered to understand how much 10000 square "miles" actually is.
- ovi256 6y agoFor those with high school math ability, it's doable to notice that 10000 sqm is the area of a square with side 100 m, so about a patch of 160 km by 160 km.
- treeman79 6y agoSwap miles for km. It’s about the same for arbitrary vastness. Well under an order of magnitude off.
- horsawlarway 6y agoIf it helps, the London metro is ~3200 square miles, and has more than twice the population of Atlanta (14 million vs 6 million). Paris is ~4600 square miles with 13 million pop. Berlin's full metro is actually comparable. It's about 11,000 square miles, but it's also nearly 1/10th of ALL of Germany.
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoNot all non-Americans are daunted by the effort of making a single Google search.