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One Olympic swimming football bus tree worth of data. When I was reading the thread the other day about a trees worth of oxygen from the MOXIE experiment, I co
by TheSpiceIsLife 4y ago
One Olympic swimming football bus tree worth of data.
When I was reading the thread the other day about a trees worth of oxygen from the MOXIE experiment, I couldn't help thinking: why not just use a term everyone is familiar with, litres per minute air.
Enough oxygen to sustain an adult at rest for x minutes.
I'm beginning to suspect there's an in-joke with science / tech writers about strained analogies.
And I'm not in.
- JohnFen 4y ago> I'm beginning to suspect there's an in-joke with science / tech writers about strained analogies. Which has been going on for longer than I've been alive. The idea (I assume) is to take a large number that's hard to conceive and turn it into something everyone can relate to. But inevitably, they choose things that few can actually relate to, or things that are so vague/variable to be meaningless. It just adds more confusion all around. It has to be an intentional joke.