The Measure of Things Press Mentions
“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.”
“Forty tons may seem like a lot – it’s equivalent in weight to about 24 cars, or 6.5 fully grown elephants.”
“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...”
“Just for the sake of comparison...[t]he poor giraffe would be about 6 feet under snow.”
“...Plaza de España, a semicircular, architectural extravaganza about the size of 10 American football fields...”
“Whatever it is, it's big... roughly 6 billion Empire State Buildings — or five times more than the Big Island of Hawaii.”
“It would take 970 acre feet of water to fill the Astrodome in Houston, according to the Measure of Things...”
“...[F]lying autonomously across a typical 500 hectares (about one-and-a-half times the size of New York's Central Park)...”