The Measure of Things Press Mentions
“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...”
“For reference, that's about a little more than how much a typical hamster weighs.”
“2,700 liters of water... That roughly works out at 17 bathtubs.”
“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.”
“...Plaza de España, a semicircular, architectural extravaganza about the size of 10 American football fields...”
“...a boat that’s nearly as long as the Arc de Triomphe is tall and features a Jacuzzi, gym and movie theater.”
“It would take 970 acre feet of water to fill the Astrodome in Houston, according to the Measure of Things...”
“...would have been 8 million tonnes, about one and a half times the weight of the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Giza) in Egypt.”