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Good visuals on variable, to very large amounts of money
http://www.xinjo.com/interesting/a-little-visual-perspective-on-the-87-billion-being-spent-on-iraq?eref=rss_full
Also, there was a good show on PBS last night, among other things, showing the Nation's largest coal mine operation and enumerating on the output of coal shipped, in terms of filled railroad cars/trains of coal/per hour/per minute, and a film of huge loaded coal car trains leaving (24/7) and empties returning.
I think it was the Front Line Show, Titled "HEAT"
The numbers are staggering..If you can dig up the video and numbers, it will take your breath away.
All the best, Pat Barthelow AA6EG
> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:40:44 -0400
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> Here at ASTC, I have heard a few great examples of a minor art form in
> which people try to explain how small, numerous, or large something is
> by analogy. They invariably start with "if you put [or took].
>
> I would like to start a collection of these short analogies, so please
> contribute: Here are a few to start
>
> From New Scientist: "if you took all the phage particles [like
> viruses] and stacked them end to end, they would reach for a total
> distance of 200 million light years."
> From dinner last night: "if each star was a grain of sand, and you
> filled a box car with sand, and you did that for many many boxcars, it
> would take seven years of boxcars of sand passing you, one every five
> seconds, to make up the total number of stars in the universe."
> From NISE-net meetings: "If you filled the exploratorium with rats,
> and every rat touched every other rat every second, that is how fast
> the molecules in a cell are moving."
> From Dorothy Parker: "If you laid all the girls at Vassar end to
> end...I wouldn't be surprised."
>
> Others?
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>
> Eric Siegel
> esiegel at nyscience dot org
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