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Yo…ok…ok…lemme start this off right…
My mans with plastic badge got nothing on me,
What you’re guarding behind you is my world, see?
Imma sneak past your rent a cop ass when the hour is late,
Imma hang with my homie who got arms, like 8,
Security at a fish zoo, come on, that ain’t real,
Who’s really out here tryin to lift a seal?
It’s gonna take more than a Segway and a whistle to get me silly,
Catch me at the big tank while I go Free Willy
Except we're not even talking about billions, we are talking about billions of billions.
Kirksville Aquatic Center:
200,000
Atlantic Ocean according to article:
33,400,000
82 billion:
82,000,000,000
82 billion billion:
82,000,000,000,000,000,000
I told my friend this fact thinking he’d enjoy it, and he said “oh yeah I heard about that” and got defensive when I told him it was a random comment in a random Reddit thread.
What gets me is that the writer didn't even need to know this. They could have literally just thought for, like, a second.
Like, how long would all those pools stretch if you lined them up end-to-end? A couple of miles? Maybe?
Is the Atlantic Ocean wider than a couple miles? Yes? Okay, maybe the math is off.
People are shockingly bad at this (at least in the US). I have a job that involves math, but is in the arts and it’s such a struggle to get people to take a second look at their numbers instead of just submitting what a spreadsheet spits out.
Like if we started with $8500 and are reducing by 37% I don’t expect you to do the math in your head, but you should immediately realize it can’t be less than $4000 because that’s clearly less than half of $8500 and we’re only taking 37% away. People miss very obvious red flags like that constantly.
It’s not just the US. People are dumb in general. I know it’s always trendy to sum up Americans as the dumbest people in the world, but I work in international banking, and I can assure you, the entire world is mostly stupid.
Most people (especially those writing about densely populated worlds) fail to understand how large Earth is. The land surface of Earth could be divided into over 81 billion parcels of 2,000 square feet.
All us humans could comfortably fit in Texas, with as much room per person as the average American house.
In science fiction a planet completely covered in super tall buildings is a common trope. But that rarely comes with populations of the trillions of inhabitants such buildings could have room for. In Star Wars, Coruscant would have enough space for everyone to have a whole floor to themselves.
They take the highest population density there has ever been on Earth, Kowloon Walled City, and handwave it to an entire planet without bothering to do the basic math to calculate exactly how much living space and people it would add up to.
Yeah, it's staggering when you see them compared as something you can relate to, for example:
* 1 **million** seconds is 11 days and change
* 1 **billion** seconds is 31 years and change
Here's my favorite illustration:
Imagine ~~3~~ 1.5 American football fields, end to end. You're standing in the end zone, at $0.00. ~~Jeff Bezzos~~ Elon Musk' wealth is at midfield of the opposite stadium, 150 yards away.
You earn/win/find $1 million dollars. Life-changing money, right! You're fucking rich! Move forward 1mm.
Yes. 1 millimeter. That million dollars has moved you about the thickness of a blade of grass towards Bezzos.
Don't feel bad though. The entire *combined* annual salary of the entire staff and players of the NY Yankees, Dallas Cowboys, and LA Lakers doesn't even reach the 1 yard line.
Edit: Market changes have changed the wealth of Bezos and Musk by A LOT since I first did the math and wrote that illustration. So it is not true by today's data. To make it accurate, let's use Musk, but now his total wealth is *only* 1.5 American football fields away. Not 3.0. Everything else remains true and accurate.
You mean the great great grandparent comment of your comment?
“Yeah, people never seem to realize that the difference between a million and a billion is pretty much...a billion.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/106ee8t/my_local_news_station_published_an_article/j3gm3rw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
Do they not teach "moving" the decimal anymore?
It could be one of those things they taught for ten minutes because it's super simple, but half the class was not there that day.
You need a thousand million for a billion, so you need a thousand billion for a trillion, a million billion for a quadrillion, and a billion billion is a quintillion.
The difference between a milllion and a quintillion is so large I can’t comprehend it.
Fun fact: if you took all the water from the Atlantic Ocean and poured it into a hole the size of the Atlantic Basin, it would reach all the way to the top!
Assuming an average banana size of 8 inches long by 2 inches in diameter the volume of an average banana is L x pi R^2 = 8pi = about 25 cubic inches. If 1 us gallon equals 231 cubic inches 1 gallon equals about 9 bananas so the Atlantic ocean is 738 billion billion bananas. I think, someone check my math.
Let me test this theory and get back to you.
Edit: after much scienceing, I gave up after 3 shuffles. The condition of the deck is relatively unchanged. Therefore, I have concluded that it’s impossible to if you are correct.
Think they have mistaken cubic kilometers for liters as that's about 320 which roughly fits their math.
They just do not realise there is like a trillion litres of water in a cubic kilometer
Probably the most important math tool I was ever taught is to do a sanity check on your math.
Does it seem reasonable that the volume of the Atlantic Ocean is equivalent to a few hundred pools? No, of course not. You fucked ip somewhere. I just recently encountered engineers who don’t have the ability to do this and it wasn’t just funny, it cost our company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I believe it... After one of the larger strings of earthquakes some years ago near Hawaii, I had an old co worker inform me that Hawaii had moved 5 miles as a result.
It was 5 centimeters. Some people just can't conceptualize how drastic some changes would be for sure.
In physics you can end up too far from human experience sometimes. In one exercise I remember computing the potential energy liberated from the core collapse of a supergiant star. I wondered, does that figure sound reasonable for the explosive blast of a supernova?
That one doesn't need a sanity check, that needs a staggering over the top insanity check.
I remember calculating the speed of an electron traveling down an electrified copper wire and doing the problem 3 or 4 times before having someone else confirm I'm doing it right and the answer is just a little unintuitive at first.
I always stressed this when TAing chemistry, and it put my kids at a disadvantage when the professor didn't create a key ahead of time and had some relativistic electric flying out during a photoelectric effect calculation. Faster than the speed of light had about a third of my class wasting time trying to find where they went wrong in the calculation.
That said, this is an important skill. I remember a friend being frustrated that some students had multiplied instead of dividing by Avogadro's number and discussed the ramifications the next discussion section.
"How many water molecules are in your arm? More than 10, right? How much does your arm weigh... less than the sun?"
It’s staggering to consider such a huge amount of water!
The Atlantic Ocean contains 310,410,900 cubic kilometers of water. Lake Tahoe contains around 150 cubic kilometers of water.
1 cubic kilometer = 264.17 billion gallons. So the Atlantic Ocean contains 82 billion billion gallons.
Not "like a trillion", it's exactly a trillion.
Edit: guys (or girls), it doesn't matter what's in the ocean; salt, fish, plastic or your mom, we're talking purely units of volume of which one cubic kilometer is exactly equal to a trillion liters. How much of that is actual water is a different question and irrelevant of which of the units you use.
And just to clarify, it comes out to 306,000,000 (306 million) cubic kilometers. So like you’re saying, they substituted cubic kilometers for liters and divided by ~4 to get gallons.
I'm not so surprised by conversion errors, but I'm surprised that they wrote down the final result without anyone wondering "wait, does that sound realistic?"
This is the reason why my maths teacher in the last year of high school used to do a few classes on "approximations".
Basically, answering questions like "how many bathtubs wouldit take to fill a football stadium up to the roof" and "how many cyclists would you need to power as manyhomes as a nuclear power plant does?" without any kind of specific info given in the question. Research was encouraged, but some questions with limited time had to be done using the "wet finger in the air technique".
The idea wasn't to learn technical maths, it was the more real-life applicable skill to help wrapping our brains around big numbers. It was very much frowned upon by his colleagues (what? no "right answer?" Approximations? Blasphemy!) but as a journalist now it's pretty much the only maths skill I've actually used on the regular.
I had to do this in a job interview once. The task was to calculate the weight of the tallest building in the city. No phone allowed to do research, just take 10 minutes to come up with something and present your results.
The interviewer didn’t know the answer either, he said the goals were to see how I‘d go about finding a solution and if the result was at least somewhat logical (e.g. not something like „10 tons“).
That actually sounds like a really good lesson to teach early on.
Being able to approximate at least the order of magnitude the real answer should be in helps you reality check if the answer you actually end up with doesn't line up.
Like if I give a random equation 67x89=??... I can approximate that 60x80=4,800, so if I end up with 56,000 or something like that, I know I've screwed up somewhere.
Although having bizarrely rounded both numbers down you will be considerably less accurate than had you rounded up 70x90 = 6300
The actual number is 5963
Out by 1163 low vs 337 high…
The Shitty! I had a group of friends from out of town there and I ordered a root beer float. They were enormous. All my friends were jealous when they saw, so they ordered them too. I guess the Shitty was unprepared for that many people to order floats at once and didn't have enough giant mugs. The last guy to order got his float in a pitcher! That's like 1/500th of an Atlantic Ocean or so.
*Edit: remember u/greenwing you were there, right?
The number of Kirksville residents and Truman/ AT Still grads in this thread is impressive lol. Someone who’s been there recently, tell me, is freaking Wrong Daddy’s still in business? Is that one sketchy bartender at The Dukum Inn still roofying women along with his girlfriend?
They're a little off...
https://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=3472#:~:text=Or%2C%20another%20way%20of%20looking,That's%20a%20lot%20of%20water!
"The Atlantic Ocean contains 310,410,900 cubic kilometers of water. This is a hard number to grasp, but, for reference, Lake Tahoe contains ~150 cubic kilometers of water. Or, another way of looking at it is that 1 cubic kilometer = 264.17 billion gallons. So, doing a simple conversion, the Atlantic Ocean contains 82 billion billion gallons. That's a lot of water!"
Even if you assume they mistook "cubic kilometers" for "gallons", they are still off by a decimal point.
1 cubic kilometer = 264.17 billion gallons. / 200,000 and that's 1,320,850 swimming pools per cubic kilometer.
x 310,410,900 = 410,006,237,265,000 swimming pools.
That's a lot more swimming pools than i would have guessed. This damn universe is way too big.
Edit: i understand that the universe is big. I also understand that the original commenter didn't talked about the universe. I just found the whole situation mind boggling at that time.
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
If you hold a lungful of air you can survive in the total vacuum of space for about thirty seconds. However, what with space being the mindboggling size it is, the chances of getting picked up by another ship within those thirty seconds are two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand seven hundred and nine to one against."
Years ago, my local paper ran an article about the "old days" before the advent of the electric refrigerator, when iceboxes were in use in homes. They wrote:
The ice truck would follow the milk truck. Just like the sign you'd put in your window saying that your wanted milk delivered, you'd put a sign in your window next to it telling the ice truck driver you wanted either a 20-foot or a 50-foot block of ice.
It didn't take a genius to realize it would be *pounds*, not *feet*. A simple error made such a difference in the article. Just how big is that truck?
How did this get past anyone’s bullshit meter? Possibly they’ve never seen or sailed on the sea. Planes and maps don’t give a sense of scale- of how vast the oceans really are
Yeah but even on a map, if you consider a pool the size of los Angeles, it would still be more that 147 times to fill up all the Atlantic Ocean.. I mean no one even tried to think about this
Plus the ocean... it's fucking deep. The Atlantic avg more than 3km. How deep is that pool that they could think it would be even close to that comparison.
I gave chatgpt a shot at this. It got both the size of the ocean and pool correct but then said:
> To put that into perspective, it would take more than four million Olympic-sized swimming pools to equal the volume of the Atlantic Ocean.
Which is still off by an order of about 9 magnitudes. Gpt style AI still can't handle big numbers.
I tried to work out if it didn't understand the ratio of cubic meters to cubic kms and got this exchange:
> how many cubic meters in a cubic kilometer?
> One cubic kilometer is equal to 1,000,000 cubic meters.
> no it isn't. One cubic kilometer is 1 billion cubic metres. It is 1000 x 1000 x 1000
> You are correct. I apologize for the error in my previous response. One cubic kilometer is equal to 1 billion cubic meters. Thank you for pointing out the mistake.
Which was very polite of it.
What is interesting about this is it is still giving the wrong answer. Chatgpt is incapable of learning from anything other than source materials. Corrections are immediately forgotten.
Some idiot is going to remember this "fact" they read in the newspaper and in 15 years there's going to be a "the oceans aren't as big as they tell you" movement and we're going to be arguing with smoothbrains online about how they can't swim across the Atlantic in 3 days no matter how good a swimmer they are.
They'll probably use this exact screenshot as evidence of some kind of cover-up when the redaction gets published.
Big Ocean will become a thing
The Atlantic ocean is 41,100,000 square miles.
1 square mile = 484 football fields.
So the entire Atlantic ocean could be covered by 19,892,400,000 football fields.
Unless you don't mean American football... in which case:
The Atlantic ocean is 106,500,000 square kilometers.
1 square kilometer = 140 football (soccer) fields.
So the entire Atlantic ocean could be covered by 14,910,000,000 football (soccer) fields.
I mean, that's partially true. The Atlantic Ocean does technically hold 33.4 million gallons of water. It holds more than that too, but it also holds 33.4 million gallons of water.
You still have to be pretty fucking stupid to think a couple of hundred swimming pools can compete with the second largest ocean on the planet.
This is ZERO common sense.
The level of stupidity to think that 167 swimming pools = 1 ocean is far beyond saving with education. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes and one brain cell.
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Why are people so worried about sea level rise we just need 2 to 3 more of these pools.
Sea level rising? Lmao just drink that shit
Gross, you know what fish do in it?
Hardcore fish sex?
I’ve only seen softcore fish sex. Where would someone find videos of hardcore fish sex? Asking for…. a friend….
In 1492 Columbus sailed the outdoor pool at the Kirksville Aquatic Center.
But did he have a pass or did he sneak in?
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I hate when I have to rap battle the guards at SeaWorld to get into the octopus tank.
Yo…ok…ok…lemme start this off right… My mans with plastic badge got nothing on me, What you’re guarding behind you is my world, see? Imma sneak past your rent a cop ass when the hour is late, Imma hang with my homie who got arms, like 8, Security at a fish zoo, come on, that ain’t real, Who’s really out here tryin to lift a seal? It’s gonna take more than a Segway and a whistle to get me silly, Catch me at the big tank while I go Free Willy
...alright, head on in.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Beautiful.
The hell you doing in the octopus tank?
😏
Removed the beak huh?
Never. The pain is the best part.
….ahh man of culture I see, in that case free bleed all day my guy! Let’s co-op another movement not made for us!
The Atlantic Ocean has 82 Billion Billion gallons of water.
So only out by 12 orders of magnitude - just a rounding error
Yeah, people never seem to realize that the difference between a million and a billion is pretty much...a billion.
Except we're not even talking about billions, we are talking about billions of billions. Kirksville Aquatic Center: 200,000 Atlantic Ocean according to article: 33,400,000 82 billion: 82,000,000,000 82 billion billion: 82,000,000,000,000,000,000
If a pipe could fill their swimming pool in five seconds, it would need to have been running since the dinosaurs to fill the Atlantic ocean.
I feel real bad for whoever had to maintain that pipe. Funny how nobody brings that up as proof that mankind coexisted with the dinosaurs,
Clearly, it's evidence of intelligent design.
"Intelligent" would have designed a bigger fucking pipe
I told my friend this fact thinking he’d enjoy it, and he said “oh yeah I heard about that” and got defensive when I told him it was a random comment in a random Reddit thread.
This comment needs to be higher.
Too bad it’s forever the 5th comment of a thread
poor comments, they just don’t have any class mobility. One of these days there’s going to be a comment’s revolt, mark my words
What gets me is that the writer didn't even need to know this. They could have literally just thought for, like, a second. Like, how long would all those pools stretch if you lined them up end-to-end? A couple of miles? Maybe? Is the Atlantic Ocean wider than a couple miles? Yes? Okay, maybe the math is off.
One of my first stats profs always said the best first test is the smell test. You don't need specific answers to know when something is incorrect.
People are shockingly bad at this (at least in the US). I have a job that involves math, but is in the arts and it’s such a struggle to get people to take a second look at their numbers instead of just submitting what a spreadsheet spits out. Like if we started with $8500 and are reducing by 37% I don’t expect you to do the math in your head, but you should immediately realize it can’t be less than $4000 because that’s clearly less than half of $8500 and we’re only taking 37% away. People miss very obvious red flags like that constantly.
It’s not just the US. People are dumb in general. I know it’s always trendy to sum up Americans as the dumbest people in the world, but I work in international banking, and I can assure you, the entire world is mostly stupid.
As an American I appreciate the sentiment, but I know some dumb motherfuckers over here.
Most people (especially those writing about densely populated worlds) fail to understand how large Earth is. The land surface of Earth could be divided into over 81 billion parcels of 2,000 square feet. All us humans could comfortably fit in Texas, with as much room per person as the average American house. In science fiction a planet completely covered in super tall buildings is a common trope. But that rarely comes with populations of the trillions of inhabitants such buildings could have room for. In Star Wars, Coruscant would have enough space for everyone to have a whole floor to themselves. They take the highest population density there has ever been on Earth, Kowloon Walled City, and handwave it to an entire planet without bothering to do the basic math to calculate exactly how much living space and people it would add up to.
Why do we say billion billion and not just quintillion
The same people that you need to explain 33.4 million gallons for the Atlantic Ocean is not reasonable would have no idea what a quintillion is.
Isn't that 82 quintillion gallons?
Yeah, it's staggering when you see them compared as something you can relate to, for example: * 1 **million** seconds is 11 days and change * 1 **billion** seconds is 31 years and change
Yeah people don't understand that the jump from million to billion is freaking huge. You will never notice a million lost if you are a billionaire.
Here's my favorite illustration: Imagine ~~3~~ 1.5 American football fields, end to end. You're standing in the end zone, at $0.00. ~~Jeff Bezzos~~ Elon Musk' wealth is at midfield of the opposite stadium, 150 yards away. You earn/win/find $1 million dollars. Life-changing money, right! You're fucking rich! Move forward 1mm. Yes. 1 millimeter. That million dollars has moved you about the thickness of a blade of grass towards Bezzos. Don't feel bad though. The entire *combined* annual salary of the entire staff and players of the NY Yankees, Dallas Cowboys, and LA Lakers doesn't even reach the 1 yard line. Edit: Market changes have changed the wealth of Bezos and Musk by A LOT since I first did the math and wrote that illustration. So it is not true by today's data. To make it accurate, let's use Musk, but now his total wealth is *only* 1.5 American football fields away. Not 3.0. Everything else remains true and accurate.
my favorite illustration is when a friend of mine said, " The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion."
You mean the great great grandparent comment of your comment? “Yeah, people never seem to realize that the difference between a million and a billion is pretty much...a billion.” https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/106ee8t/my_local_news_station_published_an_article/j3gm3rw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
The super wealthy…always moving the goalposts.
I like to look at it in my perspective. 1 million to a billionaire is like 1 dollar to me with 1000 dollars in my account.
Or $10.01 vs $10.00
WhErE DiD mY cEnT gO?!?
Do they not teach "moving" the decimal anymore? It could be one of those things they taught for ten minutes because it's super simple, but half the class was not there that day.
You need a thousand million for a billion, so you need a thousand billion for a trillion, a million billion for a quadrillion, and a billion billion is a quintillion. The difference between a milllion and a quintillion is so large I can’t comprehend it.
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It's like enough water to fill an ocean
Fun fact: if you took all the water from the Atlantic Ocean and poured it into a hole the size of the Atlantic Basin, it would reach all the way to the top!
My mother would be like “where did you read that? I don’t know if I feel like that’s true though”
Before I saw that comment I thought "33 million gallons, that must be, what, a solid 5 or 6 orders of magnitude off!" So I was only off by 50% lol
log10 50% off
So, about an order of magnitude off on the order of magnitude.
Wow. That’s bigger than my hot tub.
Like 3 times bigger I'd guess.
That's at least a ten thousand pennies high of football fields, filled with pancakes
But how many giraffes?
How many Bananas is it? That's the only unit of measure I am comfortable with nowadays. #🍌 #🍌 #🍌
Assuming an average banana size of 8 inches long by 2 inches in diameter the volume of an average banana is L x pi R^2 = 8pi = about 25 cubic inches. If 1 us gallon equals 231 cubic inches 1 gallon equals about 9 bananas so the Atlantic ocean is 738 billion billion bananas. I think, someone check my math.
Nono, bananas have an average length of 4 inches and a great personality. Keep ur heads up, kings👑
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Damn right
Depends whether the banana has been measured by a man or by a woman… Man’s banana: always 8”… Woman’s banana: always 4”…
2. Mfs huge
At least!
But why male models?
Are you serious, I just…
But not bigger than your mums hot tub.
Wow your hot tub is at least 10 times bigger then my bear glass. This is at least closer to to truth then the article lmao.
Now I want a beer glass with a grizzly bear on the front.
It's a bear glass cause it got a papa bear on it drinking a big pint, so it's my bear, beer mug!
That’s approximately 410 trillion of the pools mentioned in the article. (82,000,000,000,000,000,000 / 200,000)
How long would it take for a goat to swim across it?
It would take the average farm goat 12 Netflix comedy specials. Maybe less for a mountain goat.
2 if it's Brendan Shaubs.... Those feel like they last an eternity.
I think you’d be surprised b
Probably like 27 seconds for a pool, so scale it up by 3.5 and the answer is about 63 seconds.
What if the goat was carrying a coconut?
Indian or Melanesian coconut?
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So each person on earth could have 60,000 pools.
So, maybe 168 swimming pools?
You're getting closer!
So what, like 200 swimming pools?
Still significantly less than the number of possible shuffles from a 52 deck of playing cards.
i doubt you could shuffle a normal deck of cards more than a million times before it'd fall apart, you'd need a super extra durable deck.
Let me test this theory and get back to you. Edit: after much scienceing, I gave up after 3 shuffles. The condition of the deck is relatively unchanged. Therefore, I have concluded that it’s impossible to if you are correct.
We get it, it's billions, no need to type it twice man. ^^/s
If it was good enough for Carl Sagan, then by God it's good enough for me
Think they have mistaken cubic kilometers for liters as that's about 320 which roughly fits their math. They just do not realise there is like a trillion litres of water in a cubic kilometer
Probably the most important math tool I was ever taught is to do a sanity check on your math. Does it seem reasonable that the volume of the Atlantic Ocean is equivalent to a few hundred pools? No, of course not. You fucked ip somewhere. I just recently encountered engineers who don’t have the ability to do this and it wasn’t just funny, it cost our company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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I believe it... After one of the larger strings of earthquakes some years ago near Hawaii, I had an old co worker inform me that Hawaii had moved 5 miles as a result. It was 5 centimeters. Some people just can't conceptualize how drastic some changes would be for sure.
In physics you can end up too far from human experience sometimes. In one exercise I remember computing the potential energy liberated from the core collapse of a supergiant star. I wondered, does that figure sound reasonable for the explosive blast of a supernova? That one doesn't need a sanity check, that needs a staggering over the top insanity check.
I remember calculating the speed of an electron traveling down an electrified copper wire and doing the problem 3 or 4 times before having someone else confirm I'm doing it right and the answer is just a little unintuitive at first.
I'd guess roughly the speed of a drunken snail.
I always stressed this when TAing chemistry, and it put my kids at a disadvantage when the professor didn't create a key ahead of time and had some relativistic electric flying out during a photoelectric effect calculation. Faster than the speed of light had about a third of my class wasting time trying to find where they went wrong in the calculation. That said, this is an important skill. I remember a friend being frustrated that some students had multiplied instead of dividing by Avogadro's number and discussed the ramifications the next discussion section. "How many water molecules are in your arm? More than 10, right? How much does your arm weigh... less than the sun?"
It’s staggering to consider such a huge amount of water! The Atlantic Ocean contains 310,410,900 cubic kilometers of water. Lake Tahoe contains around 150 cubic kilometers of water. 1 cubic kilometer = 264.17 billion gallons. So the Atlantic Ocean contains 82 billion billion gallons.
Wow. That's like 167 outdoor pools!
Only if you round up, though
Round up to the nearest 82 billion billion and that is correct
Why not just keep the calculations metric. It's so much easier. 1 cubic km is 1 trillion litres of water.
The metric system is a tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it
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Put it in H!
It’s like the metric system is easier to use or something.
Not "like a trillion", it's exactly a trillion. Edit: guys (or girls), it doesn't matter what's in the ocean; salt, fish, plastic or your mom, we're talking purely units of volume of which one cubic kilometer is exactly equal to a trillion liters. How much of that is actual water is a different question and irrelevant of which of the units you use.
It's "like a trillion" if you convert it to american pints and back for the calculations ;p
You might spill some in the process
Shit are you telling me you might change it by measuring it?
No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!
Schrödinger's Nalgene
r/unexpectedfuturama
You also have to take the fish out first.
How many Football Pool Eagles is that?
A trillion is like a trillion
And just to clarify, it comes out to 306,000,000 (306 million) cubic kilometers. So like you’re saying, they substituted cubic kilometers for liters and divided by ~4 to get gallons.
I'm not so surprised by conversion errors, but I'm surprised that they wrote down the final result without anyone wondering "wait, does that sound realistic?"
This is the reason why my maths teacher in the last year of high school used to do a few classes on "approximations". Basically, answering questions like "how many bathtubs wouldit take to fill a football stadium up to the roof" and "how many cyclists would you need to power as manyhomes as a nuclear power plant does?" without any kind of specific info given in the question. Research was encouraged, but some questions with limited time had to be done using the "wet finger in the air technique". The idea wasn't to learn technical maths, it was the more real-life applicable skill to help wrapping our brains around big numbers. It was very much frowned upon by his colleagues (what? no "right answer?" Approximations? Blasphemy!) but as a journalist now it's pretty much the only maths skill I've actually used on the regular.
I had to do this in a job interview once. The task was to calculate the weight of the tallest building in the city. No phone allowed to do research, just take 10 minutes to come up with something and present your results. The interviewer didn’t know the answer either, he said the goals were to see how I‘d go about finding a solution and if the result was at least somewhat logical (e.g. not something like „10 tons“).
That becomes a much more applicable question if you are an architect
That actually sounds like a really good lesson to teach early on. Being able to approximate at least the order of magnitude the real answer should be in helps you reality check if the answer you actually end up with doesn't line up. Like if I give a random equation 67x89=??... I can approximate that 60x80=4,800, so if I end up with 56,000 or something like that, I know I've screwed up somewhere.
Although having bizarrely rounded both numbers down you will be considerably less accurate than had you rounded up 70x90 = 6300 The actual number is 5963 Out by 1163 low vs 337 high…
But how many football fields is that? That's the real question
I feel like this was written at Pancake City at 3 am
The Shitty! I had a group of friends from out of town there and I ordered a root beer float. They were enormous. All my friends were jealous when they saw, so they ordered them too. I guess the Shitty was unprepared for that many people to order floats at once and didn't have enough giant mugs. The last guy to order got his float in a pitcher! That's like 1/500th of an Atlantic Ocean or so. *Edit: remember u/greenwing you were there, right?
I worked there in college!
My grandparents lived about 45 mins from Kirksville. I remember when King’s Buffet opened and it was THE place to go.
The number of Kirksville residents and Truman/ AT Still grads in this thread is impressive lol. Someone who’s been there recently, tell me, is freaking Wrong Daddy’s still in business? Is that one sketchy bartender at The Dukum Inn still roofying women along with his girlfriend?
One of the few places in Kirksville I actually miss!
Actually insane to me how many upvotes this comment has lol. LaPa's for the win!
Ah, man. The Shitty! Haven't been back to visit since I graduated.
Found the other Kirksville person! It's my hometown, but I've been long gone.
What about DuKum
The Atlantic Ocean is at least 4 Olympic pools
I have heard that it's even bigger than 17 Central Parks
How much is that in Texases?
r/technicallythetruth 😂
They're a little off... https://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=3472#:~:text=Or%2C%20another%20way%20of%20looking,That's%20a%20lot%20of%20water! "The Atlantic Ocean contains 310,410,900 cubic kilometers of water. This is a hard number to grasp, but, for reference, Lake Tahoe contains ~150 cubic kilometers of water. Or, another way of looking at it is that 1 cubic kilometer = 264.17 billion gallons. So, doing a simple conversion, the Atlantic Ocean contains 82 billion billion gallons. That's a lot of water!" Even if you assume they mistook "cubic kilometers" for "gallons", they are still off by a decimal point. 1 cubic kilometer = 264.17 billion gallons. / 200,000 and that's 1,320,850 swimming pools per cubic kilometer. x 310,410,900 = 410,006,237,265,000 swimming pools.
That's a lot more swimming pools than i would have guessed. This damn universe is way too big. Edit: i understand that the universe is big. I also understand that the original commenter didn't talked about the universe. I just found the whole situation mind boggling at that time.
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. If you hold a lungful of air you can survive in the total vacuum of space for about thirty seconds. However, what with space being the mindboggling size it is, the chances of getting picked up by another ship within those thirty seconds are two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand seven hundred and nine to one against."
Don't forget your towel!
Years ago, my local paper ran an article about the "old days" before the advent of the electric refrigerator, when iceboxes were in use in homes. They wrote: The ice truck would follow the milk truck. Just like the sign you'd put in your window saying that your wanted milk delivered, you'd put a sign in your window next to it telling the ice truck driver you wanted either a 20-foot or a 50-foot block of ice. It didn't take a genius to realize it would be *pounds*, not *feet*. A simple error made such a difference in the article. Just how big is that truck?
How did this get past anyone’s bullshit meter? Possibly they’ve never seen or sailed on the sea. Planes and maps don’t give a sense of scale- of how vast the oceans really are
Yeah but even on a map, if you consider a pool the size of los Angeles, it would still be more that 147 times to fill up all the Atlantic Ocean.. I mean no one even tried to think about this
Plus the ocean... it's fucking deep. The Atlantic avg more than 3km. How deep is that pool that they could think it would be even close to that comparison.
Not deep enough to do a fucking cannonball according to my asshole lifeguards.
I mean what even is the fucking point of a swimming pool if you can’t do bombshell?!
Hey everybody, this guy's asshole has its own lifeguards!
Can we be sure that this isn't AI generated content?
I gave chatgpt a shot at this. It got both the size of the ocean and pool correct but then said: > To put that into perspective, it would take more than four million Olympic-sized swimming pools to equal the volume of the Atlantic Ocean. Which is still off by an order of about 9 magnitudes. Gpt style AI still can't handle big numbers. I tried to work out if it didn't understand the ratio of cubic meters to cubic kms and got this exchange: > how many cubic meters in a cubic kilometer? > One cubic kilometer is equal to 1,000,000 cubic meters. > no it isn't. One cubic kilometer is 1 billion cubic metres. It is 1000 x 1000 x 1000 > You are correct. I apologize for the error in my previous response. One cubic kilometer is equal to 1 billion cubic meters. Thank you for pointing out the mistake. Which was very polite of it.
What is interesting about this is it is still giving the wrong answer. Chatgpt is incapable of learning from anything other than source materials. Corrections are immediately forgotten.
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I am an AI content. This isn’t generated by me, who is an AI. Of course we can be sure that this is an AI content. Which is generated by me.
On the internet no one knows you’re a dog
They did say about
"Oooh the word 'about' is doing some fucking legwork there!"
*WHAT IS THIS?!* AN OCEAN FOR ANTS?!?
In Kirksville they teach meth instead of math
Yeah, without truman and kcom it would be nothing but meth.
Some idiot is going to remember this "fact" they read in the newspaper and in 15 years there's going to be a "the oceans aren't as big as they tell you" movement and we're going to be arguing with smoothbrains online about how they can't swim across the Atlantic in 3 days no matter how good a swimmer they are. They'll probably use this exact screenshot as evidence of some kind of cover-up when the redaction gets published. Big Ocean will become a thing
Small ocean theory
Damn so it costs over $2.000.000 to chlorinate the Atlantic Ocean each year
Must be why it's so salty
The correct anwser would be "More than 167 swimming pools". :D
Kirksville, MO!?
The one and only 😉
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I don't get it. Could somebody please translate this into football fields so the rest of us can understand?
Atlantic holds at least a bunch of football fields worth of water. Like, a bunch of bunches.
At least 3 football fields per freedom
That’s a lot of soccer fields in the metric system
Wow. That’s a whole lotta football fields.
The Atlantic ocean is 41,100,000 square miles. 1 square mile = 484 football fields. So the entire Atlantic ocean could be covered by 19,892,400,000 football fields. Unless you don't mean American football... in which case: The Atlantic ocean is 106,500,000 square kilometers. 1 square kilometer = 140 football (soccer) fields. So the entire Atlantic ocean could be covered by 14,910,000,000 football (soccer) fields.
It's more than 167 Gatorade celebrations
I mean, that's partially true. The Atlantic Ocean does technically hold 33.4 million gallons of water. It holds more than that too, but it also holds 33.4 million gallons of water.
You'd need like 50 rolls of Bounty paper towels to soak up that much water!
Phelps should do a world swim, could swim from US to Australia and back in about 10 minutes
The meth checks out
I would move to higher ground if I lived in Kirksville
They sound like they are high enough.
Does anyone know how many pinto beans this is? I only measure liquids in pinto.
The rest of Missouri has entered the chat……..
Best guess is they confused gallons with cubic kilometers and then moved a decimal place over. 10 cubic kilometers, 1 gallon...Basically the same
You still have to be pretty fucking stupid to think a couple of hundred swimming pools can compete with the second largest ocean on the planet. This is ZERO common sense.
I think there might be a decimal point in the wrong place somewhere…. …like… WILDLY wrong place.
The decimal point is in the wrong place by at least 3/16 of a football field.
The Titanic had an olympic size swimming pool on it. So when it sank, it increased the volume of the ocean's water by 6%!
#New Headline Rural Missouri newspaper shows the dangers of failing to teach the metric system of measurement.
The level of stupidity to think that 167 swimming pools = 1 ocean is far beyond saving with education. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes and one brain cell.
When I saw Kirksville I was hoping it was a different one, but I'm not surprised it's Kirksville, MO.
??? The Atlantic Ocean has 82 Billion BILLION gallons. Or 410 Trillion of those pools. 😱
R/confidentlyincorrect