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To: Windflier

Jumping on the band wagon:

“5 to 8 kilometers in diameter” = BIG

“15 to 20 kilometers per second” = Really Fast

“thousands of cubic kilometers” = A WHOLE LOT

“metric tons” = HEAVY

“100 kilometer-wide” = Bertha Butt Wide

:)


17 posted on 11/25/2014 12:50:10 PM PST by Magnum44 (I have had just about enough)
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To: Magnum44

Those are the exact mental conversions I use to understand metric ;-)


18 posted on 11/25/2014 5:32:32 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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