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.”
“Just for the sake of comparison...[t]he poor giraffe would be about 6 feet under snow.”
“2,700 liters of water... That roughly works out at 17 bathtubs.”
“Whatever it is, it's big... roughly 6 billion Empire State Buildings — or five times more than the Big Island of Hawaii.”
“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...”
“...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...”
“It's hard to grasp a number that size, but it's four times the weight of a blue whale, the largest mammal on earth”