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> That's about two-thirds the length of Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Is this the unit of measurement space.com readers are most familiar with?

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Americans will use any unit of measurement, as long as it's not metric!

(yes, yes, shamelessly stolen from: https://old.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/tv9yv6/a_... )

Astronomical Units and Lightyears do just fine. Maybe the rest of the world will try them someday though, I guess terameters and petameters are useful if you need to know how many microns it is to Jupiter.

A light year is 9.46×10^¹⁵m. I think rounding that to 10¹⁶m (ten petameter) is fine for armchair astronomers.

‘Real’ astronomers like to use the parsec, too (about 4.2 light years, IIRC)

AU is also very easy for me to understand as a lay person.

Thanks, that's awesome! Adding the original tweet: https://twitter.com/ralphium/status/1160242266902061056

See also: the large boulder the size of a small boulder https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315

I know this sounds crazy but it kind of makes sense to me. It's a large boulder in the context of things you might find obstructing the road, but it's a small boulder in the context of all boulders. Still pretty hilarious to read.

Yeah after seeing it so many times a "large boulder the size of a small boulder" is just the size of the boulder in the picture of that tweet to me :)

But I think it was a typo, and they meant to say "A large boulder the size of a small car"

Yours was a long comment the size of a short comment :-)

How many Rhode Islands is it though?

How many libraries of congress can you fit on this usb flash drive?

https://twitter.com/TakeThatBro/status/1636800077925580809

NSFA (not safe for Americans, at least Americans at work).

Please give all lengths in Rhode Islands.

Rhode Islands are only used when you want to show how small something is. It's a like the centimeter. It looks like a lot, but really, it's not when compared to a useful measurement ;-)

Sorry, I hate to be a pedant here, but the correct pluralization is Rhodes Island.

One Rhodes Island is roughly 43,000 Attorney Generals ;)

No that's only if you use the metric system like the Greeks.

I’d say the article contains the same human generated content as 2 Mcdonald’s Big Macs.

What an outrageous exaggeration. This article has at most the human content of one Taco Bell Doritos locos taco.

That’s an enormous amount of effort: https://www.fastcompany.com/3008346/deep-inside-taco-bells-d....

Volumes should be given in units of cubic acres.

Uh, you mean half cubic acres?

Wouldn't that be a hypervolume?

Extruded acres?

Pretty absurd. I think they were making a vague 'star' reference. I have no idea how long that is.

A little more than half the length of 1.3 Walks of Fame.

Might it be a social media hack to encourage sharing?

Is this a rhetorical question?

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