two football fields
Can we get that in micro-furlongs? Is there a universally-recognized-and-used measurement system that doesn't rely on American hand-egg sports fields for comparison? Some kind of common metric?
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2024
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I really wish they would just say 200yds and then if someone wants to imagine 2 football fields to visualize it then they can do that.
or, hear me out, use the metre
If we're being approximate, Meters and Yards are approximately the same.
But if you want exact then 200yds = 182m
Anyway, I actually have both an Imperial and a Metric tape measure in my junk drawer. When someone asks for a tape measure I hand them the metric one just to fuck with them.
Are people really that more inclined to sex after seeing a metric tape measure?
That would be great if we all were middle aged peasants
This is four megacups (thats a tea cup)
What if its soccer football fields? Will that shut you up?
600 feet, ~182 feet! It's pretty small geologically speaking, but huge from a visual/human perspective.
How much are "2 football fields" again in non-freedom units? ~1 hectare?
200 yards. A meter is 0.914 yards. So it's basically 200 meters, minus a few.
Or 1028 bananas, if that's more to your liking.
If you're converting from meters to yards then it's easier the other way. A yard is 1.094 meters.
Edited for accuracy.
Where are you getting 40cm bananas?
The math assumes only 7" long bananas (17.78cm).
Feet in a football field x inches in a foot / 7" banana
300x12=3600
3600/7=514.285
Edit: whoops! I was supposed to give the number of bananas in TWO football fields. I just noticed a bunch of other mistakes in the original comment as well. I'm not qualified to say things before I finish my morning coffee.
I thought a field was a measure of area, not length. But what do I know...
Here in the States it's almost always used as a unit of length.
Y'all are weirder than I thought.
LOL
100 yards (90ish meters) X 53 yards (50ish m)
Technically it's 120 with the end zones but when people say "in football fields" they usually mean 100 yards, its just a culturally relevant shorthand for that tbh
Size in football fields almost never means width as well, just length
Though this looks like it might literally be about the size of 2 actual American Football fields so maybe it's appropriate to use that measurement this time
Totally get it's supposed to be American football, but for fun and added confusion a Canadian football field is 10 yards longer and 12 yards wider at 110x65 or 150x65 if you include end zones.
Obviously we should refer to the American size as US customary football fields and the Canadian as imperial football field just avoid ambiguity!!
Oh, I never realized that "football fields" were a measurement of only length and not area.
This does explain some confusion I've had in the past. Thank you for the explanation to my not-so-serious question.
What about arena football?
That's what is fun about measuring in freedom units! It can be whatever you want! Fuck accuracy!
Nobody that uses freedom units cares about arena football. It always means actual football.
Approximately 10700 washing machines
~600 feet or about *meters!
This answer amuses me
I was super confused until I read it again 🤦🏻♂️I've adjusted it now lol
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
According to satellite imagery, Japan's Noto Peninsula was rattled and slightly enlarged when a 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck on January 1.
Preliminary satellite analysis and on-the-ground surveys have found that the earthquake raised land along the coast — a process called uplift — by as much as 4 meters, roughly 13 feet.
That means the sea floor along the coast has now risen above the water in many places on the Noto Peninsula, creating newly exposed beaches.
In some places, the earthquake extended the coastline by as much as 250 meters, or about 820 feet, according to a statement from the University of Tokyo.
Locals fishing in a bay on the peninsula reported that "the entire coastline was uplifted at the time of the earthquake, that the uplift in the bay occurred at the same time as the earthquake, and that the tsunami in the bay did not run up to the raised port," the university's statement said, according to a Google translation from Japanese to English.
The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan published a preliminary satellite analysis of the Noto Peninsula.
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