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The flow rates are estimated at ~500 ml/s. That seems pretty negligible in the grand scheme of things. It really says more about our sensor data that we were ev
by oh_sigh 4y ago
The flow rates are estimated at ~500 ml/s. That seems pretty negligible in the grand scheme of things. It really says more about our sensor data that we were even able to detect that small of a leak in a giant ocean.
- LostLocalMan 4y agoThat's about 6.3 olympic swimming pools a year. Olympic swimming pools are the only true way to measure volume.
- zwieback 4y agoI work on inkjet nozzles. One of our drops is maybe 9 nanograms. According to Wikipedia that's about 9e-9/2.5e9 = 3.6e-18. No problem, we'll start specifying our drop weight in atto swimming-pools.
- stickfigure 4y agoBe sure to use the metric system! I'd like a half-micropool of beer, please.
- blackoil 4y agoThats about 30870 humans pee in a year.
- Arrath 4y ago30870 individual urination events, or the annual urine output of 30870 humans?
- lsllc 4y agoI'm going to need that in: * Libraries of Congress * Football Fields
- robocat 4y agoTry https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver... It is an imperial converter, and lacks most modern American units such as Libraries of Congress. A benefit is that it has some local units: Area (nanoWales - nW), Force (Norris - No), Length (linguine - lg), Temperature (Hilton - Hn) etcetera.
- dylan604 4y agoAmerican Football (throwball) or International Football (soccer)?
- lazyasciiart 4y agoWhen you say "Libraries of Congress" do you mean the volume of their collection or the volume of the building?
- lsllc 4y agoBy volume of the building I guess (I'm not sure if the standard LoC unit of volume has ever been clarified). ChatGPT says (and thus it must be true!), approximately 27 Olympic swimming pools could fit inside the Library of Congress by volume. GP comment had converted to 6.3 olympic swimming pools, so that means just over 1/4 of a Library of Congress (by volume!).
- kridsdale1 4y agoEspecially when you’re already doing it at the bottom of the ocean.