Archive for the ‘Area’ Category
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
It's been a long time since I posted, but I got an idea the other day and my mind wouldn't let it go until I did the math. With 200,000 gallons of oil per day spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP oil rig explosion, how could I ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Previously I discussed a letter from reader Scott about parts per billion, and we had plenty of fun discovering that the allowable level of lead in drinking water was equal to about a shot glass in an olympic size pool. But reader Scott had brought up parts per billion ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
How is Bush's latest war funding request roughly equal to the amount of toilet paper needed to cover Texas and California? How much would it cost to cover Iraq in toilet paper? Read on and find out.
In my previous post on how much toilet paper it would take to ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Every once in a while, when they do a news story about aircraft carriers, the "landing on a moving postage stamp" metaphor is used to describe trying to set a fighter jet down on the flight deck safely. One of the more entertaining Rough Equivalents for a carrier landing ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
I have sitting next to me a roll of Kirkland Embossed Bath Tissue from Costco. You know, the kind of toilet paper you pick up in a pack bigger than a small child. With so much toilet paper, you could probably cover something pretty big. Maybe Texas?
So, ...
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