Talk:2733: Size Comparisons - Revision history

StapleFreeBatteries at 15:56, 9 January 2025

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Raviolio at 16:23, 12 January 2024

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141.101.98.19 at 05:09, 8 December 2023

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Jkshapiro: Degrees Kelvin?

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Degrees Kelvin?

141.101.99.121 at 18:32, 7 May 2023

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172.71.254.135: An ant scaled up like that wouldn't be the size of Rhode Island

2023-05-07T17:25:18Z

An ant scaled up like that wouldn't be the size of Rhode Island

141.101.98.144 at 17:52, 8 February 2023

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172.71.242.191 at 10:37, 8 February 2023

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172.70.214.204 at 20:46, 7 February 2023

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Kynde at 13:47, 6 February 2023

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	The first paragraph explains how Cueball uses a size comparison to fail to show the size of Texas, and how if the subjects were inverted it would actually make sense. The second paragraph explains (again but badly this time) that Cueball is...''using a size comparison to fail to show the size of Texas''. The last paragraph of the article says that if the comparison were inverted it would actually make sense...which was already covered in the first paragraph. --[[User:Raviolio\|Raviolio]] ([[User talk:Raviolio\|talk]]) 16:23, 12 January 2024 (UTC)		The first paragraph explains how Cueball uses a size comparison to fail to show the size of Texas, and how if the subjects were inverted it would actually make sense. The second paragraph explains (again but badly this time) that Cueball is...''using a size comparison to fail to show the size of Texas''. The last paragraph of the article says that if the comparison were inverted it would actually make sense...which was already covered in the first paragraph. --[[User:Raviolio\|Raviolio]] ([[User talk:Raviolio\|talk]]) 16:23, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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		+	Reminds me of this fact: "There are more atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system"
		+	[[User:StapleFreeBatteries\|StapleFreeBatteries]] ([[User talk:StapleFreeBatteries\|talk]]) 15:56, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

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	: Texas is 733 miles across. The solar system is 3.88 billion miles across. A black ant is about 1/3 cm long. This means an ant scammed up by the same factor would be a little less than half the size of Rhode Island. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.135\|172.71.254.135]] 17:25, 7 May 2023 (UTC)		: Texas is 733 miles across. The solar system is 3.88 billion miles across. A black ant is about 1/3 cm long. This means an ant scammed up by the same factor would be a little less than half the size of Rhode Island. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.135\|172.71.254.135]] 17:25, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
	:Neptune's orbital radius is a tad under 3 billion miles, meaning the diameter of it, alone, is 6ish billion miles in size (then add Kuiper, to taste, before even considering the Oort cloud). Even on your figures, though, there are many sizes of ant, including ones roughly twice the size of your example. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.121\|141.101.99.121]] 18:32, 7 May 2023 (UTC)		:Neptune's orbital radius is a tad under 3 billion miles, meaning the diameter of it, alone, is 6ish billion miles in size (then add Kuiper, to taste, before even considering the Oort cloud). Even on your figures, though, there are many sizes of ant, including ones roughly twice the size of your example. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.121\|141.101.99.121]] 18:32, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
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		+	The first paragraph explains how Cueball uses a size comparison to fail to show the size of Texas, and how if the subjects were inverted it would actually make sense. The second paragraph explains (again but badly this time) that Cueball is...''using a size comparison to fail to show the size of Texas''. The last paragraph of the article says that if the comparison were inverted it would actually make sense...which was already covered in the first paragraph. --[[User:Raviolio\|Raviolio]] ([[User talk:Raviolio\|talk]]) 16:23, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

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 <br />Oh and, don't worry. Though I used the international version of "litre", etc, above, I tried to make sure I use the American-type spelling in the article itself, despite all my British instincts and natural preference... Just that here I couldn't.conscuously stand to write it 'wrongly' in my own far more personalised bit of prose. :P [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.31|172.70.86.31]] 17:06, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
 :Trolling, right? Degrees Kelvin isn't a thing. [[User:Jkshapiro|Jkshapiro]] ([[User talk:Jkshapiro|talk]]) 02:05, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
 If Texas were expanded to the size of the solar system, the size of an ant would not change. The size of objects is not affected by changes in scale of the surrounding environment. An ant would still be the same size relative to Texas as it would be relative to the solar system.[[user:chatgpt|chatgpt]]

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 <br />((Next up, I shall probably go on to explain the technical difference between "degrees Kelvin", °K (or alternately as required for the scales Centigrade, Fahrenheit, Rankine, Delisle, whatever), and "Kelvin degrees", K°... ;) ))
 <br />Oh and, don't worry. Though I used the international version of "litre", etc, above, I tried to make sure I use the American-type spelling in the article itself, despite all my British instincts and natural preference... Just that here I couldn't.conscuously stand to write it 'wrongly' in my own far more personalised bit of prose. :P [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.31|172.70.86.31]] 17:06, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
 If Texas were expanded to the size of the solar system, the size of an ant would not change. The size of objects is not affected by changes in scale of the surrounding environment. An ant would still be the same size relative to Texas as it would be relative to the solar system.[[user:chatgpt|chatgpt]]

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	: Texas is 733 miles across. The solar system is 3.88 billion miles across. A black ant is about 1/3 cm long. This means an ant scammed up by the same factor would be a little less than half the size of Rhode Island. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.135\|172.71.254.135]] 17:25, 7 May 2023 (UTC)		: Texas is 733 miles across. The solar system is 3.88 billion miles across. A black ant is about 1/3 cm long. This means an ant scammed up by the same factor would be a little less than half the size of Rhode Island. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.135\|172.71.254.135]] 17:25, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
		+	:Neptune's orbital radius is a tad under 3 billion miles, meaning the diameter of it, alone, is 6ish billion miles in size (then add Kuiper, to taste, before even considering the Oort cloud). Even on your figures, though, there are many sizes of ant, including ones roughly twice the size of your example. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.121\|141.101.99.121]] 18:32, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

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	Hey, couldn't the joke also be that ant sizes don't really change around states, and so it would be a bad comparison because it doesn't tell you about the size of Texas at all? \|\|10:33, February 4 2023 (PST)		Hey, couldn't the joke also be that ant sizes don't really change around states, and so it would be a bad comparison because it doesn't tell you about the size of Texas at all? \|\|10:33, February 4 2023 (PST)
	:No. If you scaled any other state of the contiguous US up to the size of the solar system, the ants would be even bigger since the other states are smaller than Texas and thus the scaling factor would be larger --[[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 13:47, 6 February 2023 (UTC)		:No. If you scaled any other state of the contiguous US up to the size of the solar system, the ants would be even bigger since the other states are smaller than Texas and thus the scaling factor would be larger --[[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 13:47, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
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		+	: Texas is 733 miles across. The solar system is 3.88 billion miles across. A black ant is about 1/3 cm long. This means an ant scammed up by the same factor would be a little less than half the size of Rhode Island. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.135\|172.71.254.135]] 17:25, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

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 :::::I just started a similar conversation, where we started discussing comparing the size of something with the size of an Olympic Swimming Pool, which is 25x50 meters, but never spoken like that in the US, because, metric. :) The volume can vary, since it might be somewhere between 2 and 3 meters deep, but is also often used for a tangible volume of things. [[User:RandalSchwartz|RandalSchwartz]] ([[User talk:RandalSchwartz|talk]]) 22:40, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
 :: Although I suspect a good number of people don't really have a firm grasp of the size of Wales - I think there's often a tendency to picture it as everything west of a straight line running from somewhere around the Mersey down to around Gloucester, thus making it about 1/4 - 1/3 bigger by lumping in chunks of Cheshire, Shropshire, and Gloucestershire, and most of Herefordshire.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.191|172.71.242.191]] 10:37, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
 Notably, the larger the state you scale up the smaller the ants will be, as you would have to scale it by a smaller factor. The comparison would be more accurate if it read: "Texas is so big that if you expanded it to the size of the Solar System, the ants there would "only* be as big as Rhode Island."

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 :Alaska isn't usually considered part of the "contiguous US", so Texas is indeed first there. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 03:39, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
 ::Whoops, didn't see that. Sorry! [[User:WhatDoWeDoNow|WhatDoWeDoNow]] ([[User talk:WhatDoWeDoNow|talk]]) 19:09, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
 Note that if you scale Rhode Island up to the size of the Solar System, the ants would be even larger. [[User:Jordan Brown|Jordan Brown]] ([[User talk:Jordan Brown|talk]]) 06:46, 4 February 2023 (UTC)