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Comment by zufallsheld

5 days ago

I guess you're in the minority here. In Germany, everything Remotely large will be measured in football fields or "Saarlands".

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jve  5 days ago

I'm also European and don't get these olympic swimming pool or whatever comparisons. I'd have to look up how many m3 of water they contain or what's the length/depth in meters are to make sense of it.

Newspapers in my country don't make these silly comparisons.

But yeah, to be fair, when hearing about Starship I had to look up our TV tower height to identify whether Starship is taller or not. It disappointed me that it's not.

Yeah, height is easier to grasp when correlating in terms of x story apartment buildings.

thelastgallon  5 days ago

Whats the speed of light in football field terms?

  • lloeki  5 days ago

    Approximately 7 708 937 142 soccer fields per half time.

    • tzs  5 days ago

      When using football fields as a unit of length you should use American football fields rather than soccer fields because American football field sizes are more standardized.

      For American football professional, college, and high school games are all played on the same sized field, which is 100 years long.

      Compare to soccer, where they can even have different sized fields in the same professional league. The English Premier League wants to standardize on 105 m x 68 m but several clubs are still using other sizes: Brentford (105 x 65), Chelsea (103 x 67), Crystal Palace (100 x 67), Everton (103 x 70), Fullham (100 x 65), Liverpool (101 x 68), and Nottingham Forest (105 x 70).

      For international play FIFA has a standard, but it is a range: 100-110 m x 64-70 m.

      There are parts of a soccer field that are precisely specified and so could be used as a standard of length.

      Some examples are the radius of the circle around the center mark (9.144 m), the penalty area (40.23 x 16.46 m), distance from penalty mark to goal (10.97 m), goal area (18.29 m x 5.47 m), distance between goal posts (7.32 m), and the height of the crossbar (2.44 m).

      The reason none of them are nice integers is that they were actually originally standardized in Imperial units. In those the aforementioned measurements are 10 yards, 44 yards x 18 yards, 12 yards, 20 yards x 6 yards, 8 yards, and 8 feet, respectively.

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