Sept 22nd, 2018: Fish Bunker
A little south of New Orleans there are concrete bunkers built during WW II for Navy artillery storage.
Now two of them hold 7 million This largest collection in the world, is under the care of Tulane Biodiversity Research Institute. http://cellar.org/2017/fish3-1.jpg Quote:
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How big is a car? Unanswerable question.
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I averaged it at 100 square feet. Longer than ten feet, but not as wide as ten feet, so... My physics professor always included at least one Fermi Problem on every test.
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What's 100 sq feet? Not a car for sure.
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On average, it totally is!
"Full-size" cars must be under 80 inches wide, or else the law says they have to have clearance lights. Average "family cars" are now 4.8 meters in length (up from 4.5 meters in the 1990s.) 80 inches = 6.67 feet wide 4.8 meters = 15.75 feet long 6.67 x 15.75 = 105 square feet (or 98.45 square feet in the 90s.) I told you, I love Fermi problems. |
My 2015 Buick Encore: 168″ L x 70″ W x 65″ H, or 14' L x 5.8' W x 5.4' H.
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Well, height doesn't matter, unless you want to put a roof over Wales and fill it to a certain depth like a ball pit. Which you could totally do.
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it being so small and plastic being so plentiful.
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Sounds like we've found a place to put all the plastic that's going to be removed from the oceans.
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What the fuck does Wales have to do with the size of a car?
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Everyone knows that while driving, you're supposed to allow 1/4,000,000th the size of Wales distance between your car and the car in front of you for every 10 mph of speed that you're going. That's the international standard. How it translates into practical application measures such as car lengths depends entirely on the relationship between the fixed size of Wales and the variable size of cars. A typical car length, taking into account length and width restrictions, must be deduced or else the rule of thumb for intervehicle separation (on which your life may depend) becomes less effective.
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I think you wanted to express that in astronomical units? I'm pretty sure the French successfully petitioned for that change.
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I wonder if the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection, c/o Tulane Biodiversity Research Institute, has King Oscar in a can.
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