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Amorymeltzer
>the height of a Greg Davies

I think (little) Alex Horne made this

eightnoteight
first i thought the website would say how many elephants left in the world (like white rhinos)
signorovitch
I thought at first it would represent everything in elephants; elephant volumes, elephant hides, elephant-years &c.
hermitcrab
Author here. I did consider doing that. But ended up using elephants for height and mass. I didn't think the volume or area of an elephant was a very useful comparison!
dahart
I entered 4e10 for Energy | Kilocalories, and got:

=> 0.914x the recommended daily food consumption for a male human adult (1.09x smaller)

Is this a bug, or am I not eating nearly enough?? ;)

derscodes
Should not 1440 minutes just be a day not 12 movies lol.
hermitcrab
There are plenty of other ways to translate between standard units (e.g. minutes -> days).
floam
I was surprised it didn’t have a good 1:1 for certain units.

Like a meter, is really easily imagined as the height of a doorknob on a door.

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anArbitraryOne
1 Electron volts = 29.8 x the energy released Tsar bomba 69.5 x the energy released by convert 1 Kg of mass to energy. Something is way off, and it's not just the singular/plural of "volt"
hermitcrab
Yes, the x -> Joule values were inverted. <blush> . Now fixed.