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as I have thought with the other numerous "boiled earth" comparisons i've read in the past few weeks : who cares? In what case is this a useful way to describe
by serf 1y ago
as I have thought with the other numerous "boiled earth" comparisons i've read in the past few weeks : who cares? In what case is this a useful way to describe something to anyone? since when does a laymen comprehend the size of the earth in any meaningful way?
aside : it's funny how many wordy multi-step unit conversion comparisons have flooded the discussion space post-LLM... I'm sure that's unrelated.
- greenavocado 1y agoI find multiples of the amount of energy needed to vaporize our oceans a useful unit of energy because 8.5 x 10^27 joules is too abstract. It's just like 1 AU being the average Sun-Earth distance. It is easier to comprehend than 149,597,870,700 m when talking about large distances. Many discussions recently have centered around processes which require tremendous amounts of energy and the vaporized oceans unit provides some more tangible if absurd perspective.
- nandomrumber 1y agoAnd remember, 1 AU is about 997.3 billion bananas laid end to end.
- jaeckel 1y agoIn a straight line?
- nandomrumber 1y agoYes, laid end to end, after they've been bent. If you were to lay them end to then, then bend the them, you'd have a coil of bananas about three to four bananas (bent) in diameter.
- greenavocado 1y agoHow do you define the major axis of a banana?
- nandomrumber 1y agoThe longest dimension.