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American football fields, or "soccer" fields? Surprisingly, the answer is in the article: > In some places, the earthquake extended the coastline by as much as
by rad_gruchalski 3y ago
American football fields, or "soccer" fields? Surprisingly, the answer is in the article:
> In some places, the earthquake extended the coastline by as much as 250 meters, or about 820 feet, according to a statement from the University of Tokyo. That's about the length of 2.2 American football fields.
- sdflhasjd 3y ago... where it's being used as a measure of length and not area. How many is that in human hair widths?
- rad_gruchalski 3y agoLet’s not forget, the article doesn’t say if it’s a length of 2.2 American football fields lengths or widths. But we can deduce that.
- FartyMcFarter 3y agoIn case anyone else was curious: The American football fields are 109.8 meters long, while football/soccer fields are 90 to 120 meters long (but most commonly 105 meters long for professional stadium fields).
- Kon-Peki 3y agoHold on there! Are talking about American American football fields, or Canadian American football fields? Or American arena football fields?
- belter 3y agoAre we back at this? I assumed the agreed SI Unit at HN was either 'number of code lines' or 'server racks'...
- NooneAtAll3 3y agonormal football fields or "handegg" fields*
- rad_gruchalski 3y agoAbout that, yeah… > Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus. However, “soccer” never became much more than a nickname in Great Britain. By the 20th century, rugby football was more commonly called rugby, while association football had earned the right to be known as just plain football. > Meanwhile, in the United States, a sport emerged in the late 19th century that borrowed elements of both rugby and association football. Before long, it had proved more popular than either of them. In full, it was known as gridiron football, but most people never bothered with the first word. As a result, American association-football players increasingly adopted soccer to refer to their sport. https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-foo...
- NooneAtAll3 3y agodoesn't change that it's not a ball and almost nobody hits with a foot unlike hands and eggs
- lsb 3y agoThat's not _nearly_ the most unusual unit of measurement one could find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measu...
- louthy 3y agoTo avoid any confusion, it’s 138 bald eagles
- rad_gruchalski 3y agoNote to German readers: not Igels as your German NFL rtl nitro staff calls them.
- inkyoto 3y agoDid you use the American bald eagle wingspan (latitudinal) length or the length (longitudinal) of the said bald eagle from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail in your calculations? Considering the length of an American football field to be 109.73 metres (120 yards), and an average wingspan for the bald eagle to be 2 metres (approximately 6.7 feet), only 107 bald eagles would equate to the length of a single football field. However, if you used an average longitudinal length of 86.5 cm for the American bald eagle, one football field would equate to approximately 127 bald eagles in length, and then you have a rounding error that has crept into your calculations.
- louthy 3y ago> the earthquake extended the coastline by as much as 250 meters, I took the 250 metres (I know, I know ... a 'metre' is approximately 0.2 Ford Mustangs), and the wingspan of a bald eagle of 1.8 metres (1 Steven Spielberg). Divide the two numbers and you get 138 bald eagles. Rounding errors in unit translation may have occurred.
- rad_gruchalski 3y ago> and the wingspan of a bald eagle of 1.8 metres (1 Steven Spielberg) But Spielberg’s height is 1.72m. Did you mean Taylor Swift, Brad Pitt, or Leonardo DiCaprio?
- louthy 3y ago“Rounding errors in unit translation may have occurred.”
- johnwalkr 3y agoI was ready to defend it this time, because for area, it isn't intuitive to grasp square metres or kilometres for irregular shapes. But in fact they are using it for length here. Maybe I still want to defend it as it does give me a mental visual image and practically everyone has the experience of watching a variety of football and/or playing a variety of football.
- mulmen 3y agoI think it works here because it gives a sense like "imagine two new football fields showed up on your local coastline". But then maybe that's not the right sense. It could be true for miles of coastline. Regardless it is a significant change.
- CosmicShadow 3y agoMaybe practically everyone "in America"
- johnwalkr 3y agoBy "variety of football" I meant American football and football/soccer. The lengths of both fields is about the same.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoYou say that, but I have no idea how long those. If we played soccer, we'd play it at the local footy oval[0]. I don't know anyone who plays gridiron ("American Football"), but I assume they'd play that there too. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football_playing_field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football_play...
- Grimpen 3y agoI did a "Sportsball Fields" conversion tool for calculator. Only thing is it assumes area, not length. It lets me convert between regulation fields for National Football League, International Football Association Board, Canadian Football League, Rugby Union (max and min permissible), Rugby League (max & min) plus curling, and ice hockey (NFL and IIHF). Just need to figure out Australian Rules Football. And then sorry do it all over for length. Anything but metric.
- behnamoh 3y agoI mean, the fact that they even had to use "football" fields as a measure of size was obviously an American thing! It's common to hear that on the news here. The other day there was news about a hole the size of a "fridge" on a street... The lengths Americans go to avoid the metric system :)
- rootusrootus 3y agoYou know why Americans call soccer soccer? Because Britain. Pick a name and stick with it, dammit.
- mulmen 3y ago250 meters is 273 yards. An American football field is generally understood to be 100 yards in this context but the article claims a distance of 2.2 football fields. 273/100 is 2.7 fields. 273/2.2 is 124 yards per field. Are they using the total length with endzones? That's a confusing definition. They could have just said "roughly two football fields" and been fine. But then they did the math and made it more confusing.