How big is 33 firkins?
It's about 100,000 times as big as a Gumball
The size of a Gumball is about 0.00026 firkins.
(commercial-grade vending machine standard size)
The standard size gumball for a commercial grade vending machine has a volume of 0.00026 firkins. Walter Diemer, an accountant at the Fleer Company in Philadelphia, is the man responsible for bubblegum's traditional pink color, as pink was the only food coloring in the company's factory when he made his first successful batch of gum.
It's about 0.0000010 times as big as The Houston Astrodome
The size of The Houston Astrodome is about 35,000,000 firkins.
(a.k.a. Reliant Astrodome, a.k.a. Astrodome, a.k.a. Harris County Domed Stadium) (Houston, Texas)
The Reliant Astrodome measures 35,000,000 firkins in total volume. Until its renovation in 1988, Roy "The Judge" Hofheinz, the franchise owner of the Houston Colt .45s (later the Houston Astros) and one of the Astrodome's developers, had a private 966 sq. m (10,400 sq. ft) apartment in the facility.
It's about 0.0000007 times as big as The Melbourne Cricket Ground
The size of The Melbourne Cricket Ground is about 50,000,000 firkins.
(a.k.a. MCG, a.k.a. "The G") (Yarra Park, melbourne, Victoria, Australia) (internal volume)
The MCG has an internal volume of approximately 50,000,000 firkins. The first cricket game held on the site of the MCG was in 1853 when the Melbourne Cricket Club was granted permission to a roughly 0.04 sq. km (10-acre) area to be used "for cricket and no other purpose."
It's about 0.0000005 times as big as The Great Pyramid of Giza
The size of The Great Pyramid of Giza is about 71,256,420 firkins.
(a.k.a. Pyramid of Khufu, a.k.a. Pyramid of Cheops) (Cairo, Egypt) (including internal hillock)
The Great Pyramid of Giza has an estimated volume of 71,256,420 firkins including its internal hillock. The 2,300,000 stones used in the construction of the pyramid weighed an average 2.27 metric tons (2.06 short tons) and were quarried at distances of up to 805 km (500 mi) away.
It's about 0.000000002 times as big as Sydney Harbour
The size of Sydney Harbour is about 16,500,000,000 firkins.
(formally Port Jackson, a.k.a. Sydney Harbor) (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) (total estuary water volume at high tide)
Lending the term "sydharb" or "sydarb" to comparable quantities of water, Sydney Harbor contains approximately 16,500,000,000 firkins of water. Snapper Island, a onetime naval facility loocated in the Harbour, was transformed by the dredging efforts of the Australian Navy from a 2,360 sq. m (25,400 sq. ft) outcropping to a 16,500 sq. m (178,000 sq. ft) island shaped roughly in the outline of a boat.
It's about 0.0000000000003 times as big as an Halley's Comet
The size of an Halley's Comet is about 120,000,000,000,000.00000000000000000 firkins.
(Comet Halley, officially "1P/Halley") (volume calculated based on 2005 dimensions)
Halley's Comet, the famous comet visible to observers on Earth approximately every 76 years, has a peanut- or potato-shaped nucleus made of rock, dust, ice, and various frozen gasses. The nucleus measures approximately 15 km by 8 km by 8 km, which yields a calculated volume of 120,000,000,000,000.00000000000000000 firkins. The coma of the Comet — the trail of sublimated gasses that give the Comet its visibility — may be up to 100,000 km in length.
It's about 0.0000000000003 times as big as The Grand Canyon
The size of The Grand Canyon is about 122,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000 firkins.
(Coconino County and Mohave Counties, Arizona, near Fredonia and Grand Canyon, Arizona)
A dynamic and continuously changing landscape, the Grand Canyon has an approximate volume of 122,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000 firkins. The strata of the rock visible in the Canyon's walls display nearly 2 billion years of geological history.
It's about 0.0000000000000005 times as big as The Gulf of Mexico
The size of The Gulf of Mexico is about 71,440,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000000 firkins.
(water volume)
The Gulf of Mexico contains 71,440,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000000 firkins of water. Every second, the Mississippi River empties 352,200 firkins of water into the Gulf.
It's about 0.0000000000000000008 times as big as Earth's Oceans
The size of Earth's Oceans is about 41,000,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000000 firkins.
(Total water volume of Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans) (estimated)
Over 97% of the Earth's water is found in the planet's five oceans for a total volume of about 41,000,000,000,000,000,000.0000000000000000000000 firkins. The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean, covering 165,760,000 sq. km — more than double the area of the Atlantic Ocean at 82,400,000 sq. km.