The Measure of Things Press Mentions
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“Forty tons may seem like a lot – it’s equivalent in weight to about 24 cars, or 6.5 fully grown elephants.”
“Just for the sake of comparison...[t]he poor giraffe would be about 6 feet under snow.”
“For reference, that's about a little more than how much a typical hamster weighs.”
“Goalline technology showed the ball was 11.7mm away from crossing the line. Or about the width of a headache tablet. Or nine grains of sand...”
“They estimate the stock of empty houses nationwide at about 20 billion square feet, about two-and-a-half times the area of New York City.”
“2,700 liters of water... That roughly works out at 17 bathtubs.”
“It would take 970 acre feet of water to fill the Astrodome in Houston, according to the Measure of Things...”
“To put that into some kind of perspective, it is the weight equivalent to 340 Giza pyramids, 80,000 Statues of Liberty or 12 million blue whales.”
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