On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:45:28 Henschel Mark wrote: > Well, I can help you visualize the size of metric units. > > I think of a hectare as two football fields side by side.
This is useless to me, as I don't watch football. > Think of a kilometer as five city blocks. Or a railroad train 60 cars long. > Or perhaps three Eiffel towers or ten Statues of Liberty. Then this > distance in two dimensions would be an approximation to visualize a square > kilometer. (Perhaps 25 city blocks in many US cities) Train cars vary in length. City blocks vary widely. Kilometers don't. I know it's 50 m to a certain tree, 200 m straight-line to the interstate, and 1 km by road to the nearest exit. But that doesn't help anyone else visualize distances. Besides calculations of L/m² of rain or kg/m² of seed, there were some guys who were building a fence. They figured how much fencing they needed per 100 m, then every 0.1 km the guy inside the pickup told the guy in the back to throw some. Pierre -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.
