Makes a change from measuring in elephants or blue whales, I suppose, but who the heck counts weight in units of skyscrapers? - ThreadSky

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edwinhayward.com • 2 days ago

Makes a change from measuring in elephants or blue whales, I suppose, but who the heck counts weight in units of skyscrapers?

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slimwasherman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Would it cover an area the size of Wales?

tjrh.uk•1 day ago

1000 litres of water is a tonne; they could have measured it in Olympic swimming pools which each contain about 2500 tonnes of water.

stidmatt.bsky.social•2 days ago

Anglos gonna Anglo. Anything but metric!

nobody22722.bsky.social•1 day ago

Americans, probably. Anything but SI units for them.

londondiscuss.bsky.social•2 days ago

I actually describe our company as a 'data elephant', precisely because I loved those comparisons.

els76uk.bsky.social•2 days ago

How many Olympic swimming pools would it fill? 😂

mikedlondon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Or Double-decker buses and Olympic-sized swimming pools.

epoxie.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can't help but think the reason they keep using arbitrary means of measure is to not use a single unit of measure, that ya'd get accustomed to, to obfuscate the numbers, the amounts. As in, 1984-ish doublespeak where they constantly change the language so you never get a firm grip on things.

firmlyaground.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maybe most of the weight of the Shard is in its steel structure.

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