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The sizes are so different. It's like showing Earth from space and getting the Amazon River confused with a canal.
by dkarl 3y ago
The sizes are so different. It's like showing Earth from space and getting the Amazon River confused with a canal.
- arethuza 3y agoNot quite Amazon and a canal but... I was once asked by a tourist near where I lived if the bridge they had just driven across was the 2500m long Forth Road Bridge across what is, I believe, geographically a fjord - it was actually Dean Bridge which is 134m long across a gorge of a fairly small river.
- vikingerik 3y agoYeah, disparate sizes are hard to understand. Another example: when the Ever Given ship was stuck in the Suez Canal, all the internet wags were saying "why can't they just excavate the dirt?" Well, this pic shows the scale difference involved: https://i.redd.it/5g9jvoecj6p61.jpg https://i.redd.it/5g9jvoecj6p61.jpg
- AlotOfReading 3y agoA bagger would be about the right relative proportions. We just need a couple on permanent standby near every major waterway.
- scelerat 3y agoGrowing up in southern California I had some relatives visit and we spent a day at Newport Beach. When the morning marine layer broke and Catalina Island became visible, they asked, "is that Hawaii?"
- phkahler 3y agoI heard of some European visitors to New York thinking they would drive to Chicago for the day. It's about 800 miles. Countries in Europe are similar to average or small states in the U.S.
- arethuza 3y agoAbout 20 years ago I had a couple of people from the US ask me if they could drive to Rome for the day - we were in Edinburgh at the time. Rome is about 1,600 miles away from here.