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Isn't this akin to the reddit meme of showing everything next to a banana "for scale" comparing body parts?

I.e. non-deterministic and from a scientific perspective, total horse shit.

Totally. "Science" requires precision because science in many ways is the mechanism by which we learn truths with greater and greater precision. That doesn't mean though that science naturally abhors imprecise "for-scale" measurements though- they just reserve them for illustration and avoid using them for the actual science. (e.g., http://imgur.com/gallery/ESp2j - marianas trench scale)

Yep can understand that. Its important to visualise values and comparing to reference points is fine.

This comes to mind for unit conversions: http://www.weirdconverter.com

That was an Imgur meme first. One of the original Imgur memes at that.

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