The Measure of Things Press Mentions
“Forty tons may seem like a lot – it’s equivalent in weight to about 24 cars, or 6.5 fully grown elephants.”
“...Plaza de España, a semicircular, architectural extravaganza about the size of 10 American football fields...”
“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...”
“Whatever it is, it's big... roughly 6 billion Empire State Buildings — or five times more than the Big Island of Hawaii.”
“2,700 liters of water... That roughly works out at 17 bathtubs.”
“Just for the sake of comparison...[t]he poor giraffe would be about 6 feet under snow.”
“It would take 970 acre feet of water to fill the Astrodome in Houston, according to the Measure of Things...”
“The total storage capacity of these two buildings together was more than 2500 cubic meters... How big is 2500 cubic meters?”