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> Informally known as Lake Manly, the fleeting pool is about 6 miles long, 3 miles wide and just 1 foot deep. That's about 1.421e10 liters of water, which Wolf
by kibwen 3y ago
> Informally known as Lake Manly, the fleeting pool is about 6 miles long, 3 miles wide and just 1 foot deep.
That's about 1.421e10 liters of water, which WolframAlpha tells me is 3.5% of the volume of all living humans, and coincidentally the United States has about 4% the world's current population, so this lake has approximately as much volume as the population of the US. (Calculating the deviation in volume between the average American and the average human left as an exercise for the reader.)
- TheTxT 3y agoYou forgot to take the average volume of humans living in different countries into account /s
- solardev 3y agoMaybe Bay Area housing would finally get cheaper if we could just convince all the Americans to move into that lake.
- gumby 3y agoI love this calculation because it feels like it is somehow significant but is actually mathematical doggerel. So great, thanks!
- throwup238 3y agoHow much is that in football-feet? (Football fields covered in water 1 foot deep, like acre-feet except American, fuck yeah!)
- dunham 3y agoIt's 14.8 billion big gulps. I think that's about 44 big gulps for each resident of the United States.
- vanattab 3y agoI bet badlands chug could do it himself. https://youtube.com/@BadlandsChugs?si=v7WjRXTj1dW9M0Mj https://youtube.com/@BadlandsChugs?si=v7WjRXTj1dW9M0Mj
- ianschmitz 3y agoWhoa, Big Gulps, huh? All right! Well, see you later!
- adastra22 3y agoAh, now there’s a Freedom Unit.
- loudandskittish 3y ago"Americans will use anything but the metric system."
- solardev 3y ago[dead]
- owenversteeg 3y agoThat’s fantastic. I propose a new unit, big gulps per American place, in the spirit of the other great American units, “large boulder” and “small boulder”: - One Big Gulp for every Kansan is one Olympic sized swimming pool - One Super Big Gulp for every Texan is about one Exxon Valdez oil spill - 1776 Big Gulps for every American, times a thousand Americas, is almost exactly the annual flow of our own beautiful Mississippi River. If that doesn’t bring a patriotic tear to your eye I don’t know what will.