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How do you show someone the force of an erupting volcano via print, or the height of the Burj Khalifa over a 17-inch screen? No matter how huge something may be, it's hard to wrap your mind around the scale of it without seeing it for yourself, or having some point of reference to compare it to. That's where this trope comes in. A simple way to show the size of something is to compare it to something else that a lot of people are familiar with. That's why many documentaries, especially ones of the "World's Biggest Whatever" variety, will use measurements that compare things to familiar or historic events, places, and objects. Energy: Released by explosions and hurricanes: will be measured in atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima. When trying to be slightly more specific, they use "kilotons of TNT". Electricity will be measured in "enough to power Manhattan/the United States/the world for Y amount of time". Height will be measured in Empire State Buildings, Eiffel Towers, Burj Khalifa, or Pyramids of Giza. Really big heights will be compared with Mt. Everest or any of the other famous mountains (Denali, K2, Anapurna, Matterhorn, etc). Volume and concentration will be measured in Olympic swimming pools or olympic stadion. In the United Kingdom, volume is sometimes measured in Albert Halls (and as The Beatles told us in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1 Albert Hall = 4000 Holes). In Australia liquid volumes are sometimes measured in Sydharbs (the amount of water it would take to fill Sydney Harbour, or about 500 gigalitres). The other type of volume is usually measured in terms of a rock concert, a chainsaw, a jet plane, or a gunshot. Lengths will be measured in trips to the sun, times around the Earth's equator, or distance between the Earth and the Moon. The mean distance between the Earth and the Sun is used as an actual unit of measurement, the Astronomical Unit (AU). Smaller lengths (comparatively speaking) might be measured as the distance between two points, e.g. "Enough copper wiring to stretch from Chicago to Minneapolis". Small lengths will often be compared to parts of the body, such as a human arm, leg, fingernote An example of this in biology is the Duodenum, the first section of the small intestine; its name is derived from the latin duodeni, meaning "in twelves", as it was found that the length of this section of intestine was roughly twelve fingers long! or hair. Also acceptable is the head of a pin, as in how many of what can fit on one. Also acceptable: amount that can fit in the eye of a needle or point of a pencil. Another uncommon one is how many of something can fit inside a period. (The punctuation mark, you pervert.) Medium-sized areas are measured in football fields or Walmarts. Large areas are usually measured in the UK as multiples of Wales, and in the US as multiples of Texas. Other regions commonly used include Switzerlands. Weight will be measured in sacks of concrete, Boeing 747 jumbo jets, VW Beetles (for some reason, it's always VW Beetles or Mini Coopers), or large animals (usually elephants and whales, or sometimes both [the tongue of a blue whale could fit 3 elephants on it]). Large amounts of money are generally measured one of several ways: as the length of that many one-dollar bills laid end-to-end, using one of the astronomically-sized length measures, e.g. "If the National Debt were in dollar bills and you laid them end-to-end, it would stretch all the way to the sun and back 9 times." in stacks of dollar bills (for truly large amounts, larger denomination bills may be used, such as $100 or 500 € bills) using one of the standard comparative-height measurements ("One million dollars would be a stack of dollar bills one and one half times as tall as the Empire State Building"). by how much a person would have to spend per day/hour/minute/second without stopping for <however long> ("To spend a billlion dollars, a person would need to spend $1901.32 every minute without stopping for a year") contrasting against the price tag of some known to be pricey, usually impressive military, objects; e.g. "John Bezos's net worth is 200 billion dollars. That's enough to buy 23 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers." contrasting against the GDP of a country, which means all the money anyone made within the territories of that country over a time period, usually a year. contrasting against the total assets of a big company ("he has enough money to buy IBM four times over"). Anything to do with zoology and especially paleontology will use the average human height, or occasionally the average human finger for smaller examples. Prehistoric animals will usually be compared, either in overall size, or in some specific measurement (e.g. bite force, tooth size), to Tyrannosaurus rex. Smaller dinos will be compared to chickens. A population will be measured by how many football/Olympic stadiums they could fill, or by how many times they circle the earth if placed end-to-end near the equator. Absurdly high temperatures will be compared to the Sun, the melting point of certain metal, or a (possibly self-cleaning) oven. Compressive and tensile strength is still compared to steel (e.g. spider's silk/nylon/carbon fiber is X times stronger than steel). Sometimes compressive strength is compared to concrete. Animal strength will invariably be compared either to how much a bulldozer can lift; or, for small creatures, to how much they could carry/lift/jump if they were blown up to human size (ignoring the problems being human sized would cause them). Intelligence in non-humans is measured in terms of human age, e.g., "Dogs have the intelligence of a three-year-old child," despite this not being an accurate assessment of animal intelligence. Originally, IQ was determined by calculating someone's mental age, dividing it by their actual age, and multiplying the resulting number by 100. Computing power is compared to a particular electronic gadget, such as an iPhone or an Xbox. Electrical power is still often expressed in terms of 100-watt light bulbs, even though 60-watt bulbs are more common these days, and the equivalent LEDs use much less power. Fat and calories will often be given in units of cheeseburgers or large pizzas. Because any amount of radiation sounds scary, the BED was invented (Banana Equivalent Dose) to help people understand small amounts are inconsequential. xkcd touched upon it here. The size of vehicles are often given in terms of other vehicles. For ships the standard is usually The Titanic or "an aircraft carrier". Maritime disasters will also typically use the Titanic disaster a a yardstick to judge the death toll against, even for the small handful of accidents that exceed its death toll. Ocean depths are also measured relative to the depth of the Titanic wreck site (about 2.5 miles or slightly under 4000 meters). The Mariana Trench, the deepest known ocean depth, is about 3 times as deep as the Titanic. For smaller automotive sized objects, a VW Beetle will be the yardstick. For larger objects, (especially in North America) a Greyhound bus or a school bus may be the comparison. The British equivalent would be a Routemaster London Bus. For aircraft, the go-to comparisons are the Boeing 747 (if it's large) and the Cessna 172 (if it's small). The total timespan of human existence (a few hundred thousand years) is often used to visualize geologic or cosmic timescales. On the other end of the spectrum, the blink of an eye is often used to describe very short timespans. Other short times include the time it takes for a hummingbird to flap its wings once. Invert these, and you can also get frequencies. Basically, any unit of measure that equates to something extreme in that property, but is still rather vague and hard to comprehend since the average person doesn't know what that ''is'' off the top of their head. Bonus points if the number of the unit of measure is still ridiculously large (e.g. 1,000,000 Hiroshimas) thereby defeating the purpose of describing it in those terms even if the unit was something people would intuitively understand. Many of the units on Wikipedia's list of unusual units of measurement are of this form. This trope is for unusual units for quantities that have well-defined values in ordinary non-facetious units. If you measure an amount of something that usually is not given a numerical value at all, such as "evil" or "beauty", it is an Abstract Scale, or sometimes 20% More Awesome. See also Fantastic Measurement System. |
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Planet of Dinosaurs did this straight three times. The Meteor Crater was made by a rock which hit the Earth with an impact like 4 Hiroshima bombs; The Tunguska Event (1908, in Siberia) was provoked by a mysterious body with a power of 1,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs; finally, the iconic meteorite of the End Cretaceous with its 10,000,000,000 Hiroshima bombs. | |
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The Smurfs are described as being "three apples high", supposedly meaning a smurf's height is that of three apples stacked. Not very precise, but it does confirm that they are quite small. | |
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The Far Side had a panel inspired by writings about how fast a school of piranha can skeletonize a cow. He thought this was an odd thing to use as the standard unit of measurement, and since his comic regularly features cows anyway, this inevitably became the basis for a panel: Two cows in pith helmets and hiking gear are exploring the Amazon, and one of them reads the statistic from a guidebook, commenting "...now there's a vivid thought." The cows are standing in a piranha-infested river while reading this. | |
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DEATH BATTLE! is justified in doing this as some of the calculation for the feats done by combatants enter frankly absurd numbers. Usually measured in "____tons of TNT" (kilotons, gigatons, etc.), followed by a point of comparison (with - surprise! - Hiroshima being a common usage). Exaggerated with battles like "Beerus vs. Galaxia", "Hulk vs. Broly", "Goku Black vs. Reverse Flash" and "Thor vs. Vegeta", where the combatants are so absurdly powerful that our universe has to be used as a unit of measure to describe their destructive power. | |
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The Angel episode "Time Bomb" had the demoness Illyria threatening to implode and, according to Wesley's conservative guess, take out several city blocks. Angel requests an "unconservative" guess. | |
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In the Geometry Dash Impossible Levels community, the level "Sloom", by Haydendom, has often been used as a memetic measurement of level badness, as it is considered one of the worst decorated levels on the Impossible Levels List. | |
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In an episode of MythBusters, Adam used a virtual hurricane of these in order to make distance comparisons; for example, he called 200 yards "two football fields" or "six M5s."note M5 being the name of their primary workshop, which, true to Adam's statement, is about 100 feet from the front wall to the back While one of the comparisons he used for 500 yards was "the distance of your average restraining order." | |
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Twitch Plays Pokémon has the "Wattson" unit of measure. One Wattson (or WA) is equivalent to twenty-three attempts to defeat a single NPC opponent by the Mob. So far, five trainers(including Wattson himself) have reached Wattson ranking of one or more WA, with record belonging to Drake from Hoenn Elite Four at 1.39 WA, or 32 attempts. note If one counts Elite Four as a single opponent, then the record still belongs to Hoenn Elite Four with whopping 4,48 WA (102 attempts), which is sometimes called 1 Em. | |
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One episode of Curious George was about George preparing the Man in the Yellow Hat's birthday party, but purchasing the wrong-sized cake, decorations, etc. While trying to prepare this stuff, George ends up taking a nap and has a dream where everybody uses George as their sole unit of measure. | |
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In Cradle 2 the Grave, the second-most powerful setting of the superweapon is described as "two Hiroshimas". The number-one most powerful setting is described as "new world order". | |
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Especially on the internet, the Harry Potter series (or sometimes just the longest of the books, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) is used as measure of length of fanfics and other works of literature. Not only is it something a lot of readers are familiar with, it coincidentally is only just north of a million words (specifically 1,084,170), making it a nice measuring stick. Atlas Shrugged and War and Peace are also popular when describing the length of door stoppers. | |
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Discworld: According to an advertisment in the The Compleat Ankh-Morpork City Guide, every bowl of Makewar's Crispy Nuts breakfast cereal contains the same amount of nuts as three squirrels. | |
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A similar comparison was used in Snow Crash to describe the speed of the novel's fiber-optic data transfers: | |
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In Virtue's Last Reward, antimatter annihilation explosions are scaled up to the Hiroshima bombing multiple times. During Alice's antimatter bomb explanation, she uses an example of an antimatter bomb that uses 350 mg of matter and 300 of antimatter, which would produce sixty-three trillion joules. She says this is roughly the same as the Hiroshima bomb. Phi calculates that an antimatter reactor which uses 3.5 kg of anti-hydrogen produces an explosion roughly 10,000 times that of the Hiroshima bomb. The antimatter pant explosions, in which all 18 antimatter reactors in the world exploded simualatously, produced an explosion that was around 180,00 times that of the Hiroshima bombing. |
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Work It Out Wombats!: In "Measure for Measure," the wombats need to measure Ellie's head to determine how big her new hat needs to be. They first use apples, then jellybeans to measure her head before they use a ribbon. | |
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In the Ready Jet Go! episode "Measure for Measure", the kids decide to make a scale model of the solar system in the yard. They use Sunspot as an astronomical unit. | |
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Dave in Homestuck meditates on this trope over instant messaging: | |
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Deep Impact features a comet described as "The size of New York City, from the Battery to the Bronx. Or, put another way, it is larger than Mt. Everest." The opening narration also used the "Hiroshima measurement" when speaking of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Even though they try to make it sound impressive, they severely underestimate the energy released by the real impact. | |
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In the film The Giant Claw, the Special Effects Failure creature is constantly compared in size to a battleship. | |
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Grobnar of Neverwinter Nights 2 starts using his team mates as a unit of measurement. | |
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xkcd: Randall Munroe gives us several of these here. And then parodies the practice here. In "Payloads" he gives first the mass then the lifting capacity of several spacecraft in terms of horses. |
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"The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measurements," described in MAD #33, is largely similar to the metric system, but with different base units. The standard unit of length, the potrzebie, is defined as the thickness of MAD #26 (2.263348517438173216473 mm). The Potrzebie System was sent in to MAD by then-19-year-old Donald Knuth, who became a famous computer scientist. This is also a case of Fantastic Measurement System, though based on a real-world item. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: It has a Running Gag with Vegeta using Butt-Monkey Raditz's power level of 1200 as a unit of measurement during the Vegeta arc. For the record, Nappa is worth 5 Raditz, while Vegeta himself is worth 15. When Vegeta and Nappa start growing Saibamen, Vegeta comments that their power level is the same as Raditz's, so that they can grow Raditzes. Cut to Raditz going "I. Hate. ALL OF YOU." Later on "Raditz" somehow starts being used as a currency; the fast-food restaurant Spacey's even has a "Raditz Menu". |
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As one user on 4chan explained, a hitler can be used as a measure of death and financial value: | |
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In Grrl Power, the ARCHON super-team demonstrates their powers for the press by attacking a tank donated by the military. Later, a supervillainess mentions that her powers can easily destroy a tank, and the author notes that "what it can do to a tank" seems to be a standard unit of measure for supers. | |
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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition used the gold piece as a unit of weight. Your carrying capacity, the lifting power of a telekinesis spell, the load limit of Tenser's floating disc, etc. — all these were given in units of gold pieces rather than pounds. (At the time, 1 gold piece weighed 1/10 of a pound, so converting between pounds and gold pieces was rather easy, although it did make for some ridiculously heavy coins. When 2nd Edition came out, the weight of 1 gold piece changed to 1/50 of a pound and the notion of listing weight in g.p. was abandoned.) | |
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In Tag Dream, the kappa have repaired a damaged ring in such a way that it will explode if it receives an impact sufficient to kill a crow tengu 256 times. | |
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In If the Shoe Fits from Mouse Math, there's a shoe in the People yard that the Funny Animal mice Albert and Wanda want to use as a clubhouse, but they don't know if it will fit in their home. Albert says they can measure it and Wanda points out that they don't have a ruler. Albert suggests they could measure it using his feet and comes up with "12 mouse-feet long," but when Wanda measures it, she gets "10 mouse-feet long." They realize that since their feet are different sizes, they got different numbers. They then try measuring it using cheese sticks and come up with 8 cheese sticks, only to get to the room and find that Albert has eaten most of the cheese stick. They finally settle on paper clips, which are all the same size, and which can't be eaten. | |
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Also, in Mass Effect, Admiral Hackett will use it to describe the size of a tactical nuke attached to a recon probe launched during the First Contact War. | |
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In his science blog What If?, Randall Munroe has measured energy in megayodas (as a Call-Back to an earlier post) and altitude in giraffes. He's also subverted it, by noting that the entire population of Earth would take up an area "the size of Rhode Island" - and then exploring the consequences of his latest thought experiment actually taking place in Rhode Island. | |
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The Day After Tomorrow: When the Vice President tries to decry Jack's warnings about the long-term consequences of manmade global warming as "sensationalism", Jack silences him by commenting that the Antarctic ice shelf which he saw breaking off in the movie's opening (stretching beyond the horizon due to its size) was "about the size of the state of Rhode Island," snarkily adding on that "some people might call that sensational." | |
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Mass Effect tends to use Hiroshimas to quantify the yields on starship mass accelerators, both in-game and in the Codex. One particularly memorable scene from 2 has a gunnery captain chewing out a pair of recruits about just how powerful the gun really is, how important it is to check their targets, and that with a gun that powerful, you do not "eyeball it". Also, in Mass Effect, Admiral Hackett will use it to describe the size of a tactical nuke attached to a recon probe launched during the First Contact War. |
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Louise and Cattleya measure how mean someone is in Overlady using Centi-Eleanores aka one hundredth as mean as their eldest sister Eleanore. Louise is shocked when Cattleya describes someone as being worth 80 Centi-Eleanores, given that most don't even reach 20. | |
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The narration writers for The History Channel series Modern Marvels love these, even when they're less than helpful. Particular favorites are "the thickness of a human hair" or some fraction of it; aircraft carriers for size or volume; and football fields, or "Los Angeles to {insert appropriate city}" for distance. Before you can describe something's size in units of aircraft carriers, you first have to mention that an aircraft carrier is the length of 5 football fields. | |
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In Team America: World Police, a number of terrorist plots are described as being "9/11 times a number," usually followed by the value of that number multiplied by nine hundred and eleven. | |
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The movie Armageddon (1998) uses this trope while describing the size of the asteroid. Notably the guy who makes the reference is just cutting to the chase. | |
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The simple Russian peasants of Siberiade are a little fuzzy on how long a journey of 500 kilometers is, so it's also described as "six goose flights". | |
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Silver Spoon's Hachiken attempts to measure large measurements like hectares in Sapporo Domes. A Running Gag is that no-one ever actually knows, but compares it to something else (for example Vatican City or the Macross) only for Hachiken to realise he has no idea how large the new unit actually is. | |
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Outside Xbox: Jane gives the sadness of events in video games in deaths of Mufasa. | |
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Played with in M*A*S*H when Hawkeye needs an arterial graft for a patient: | |
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In the "Earth from Space" episode of Nova (PBS), they showed the brine released from freezing water in the antarctic cascading downward under water. It was said to be 500 times the flow rate of Niagara Falls. Earlier in the same episode, they described the energy absorbed by all the water vapor evaporating from all the Earth's oceans in multiples of the entire energy production of all power plants in the world combined. | |
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The Pokedex of Pokémon Red and Blue mentions that Raichu can electrocute an indian elephant and that Gastly can envelop one. Fangame Pokémon Clover took this and turned it into a Running Gag where the powers and abilities of many pokemon are measured in indian elephants. | |
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Absolute Trust: During the Gaangs' adventures, Alec makes comparisons to Makapu Village as a measurement of the level of Stupidity they would be dealing with in a given situation. | |
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The documentary Walking with Dinosaurs mentions the meteorite at the end of the Cretaceous as "hitting the Earth with a power of 10,000,000,000 Hiroshima bombs". | |
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Kimi No Na Iowa: The enhanced power provided by Fusou's railgun spell is represented by stating that the impact of a post-buff battleship shell is measurable in Tomahawk cruise missiles. The Super-Strength and Super-Toughness of Charles Ausburne in warform is demonstrated by her kicking down a bunker door that can resist a battleship's broadside, then No Selling direct hits from abyssal battleship shells. |
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In Craig of the Creek, the kids use backyards as a unit of measuring distance, which doesn't make sense because backyards are different sizes and have different lengths and widths. | |
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In The Abyss, Lindsey asks Lt. Coffey how many missiles are on the wrecked sub they are investigating: | |
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In Jarhead, this is noted as a legitimate military tactic to quickly gauge distances: use things you know, such as the length of a football field. | |
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The Leap Frog educational DVD Scout and Friends: Adventures in Shapeville Park featured mice called "measure mice" used as part of a song number about measuring. "Look at Penny jump / How far can she go? / We can use the measure mice and then we'll know / Line them up and count them up, place them end-to-end! / Her jump is two mice long! That's how long!" The mice were cute and the song was catchy, but the problem was that no real-world units were given to relate just what "two mice" was. Some felt this may have been done to avoid having to get into confusion between metric and imperial units, but more than one reviewer and commenter on Amazon.com felt the idea of measuring with mice was somewhat bizarre. As opposed to common-sense units of length, such as the foot size of a long-dead king, or one ten-thousandth of the distance between the north pole and the equator. |
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In Spinnerette, Heather tells a reporter covering a protest about an antimatter experiment that if all the antimatter in the lab goes up in one big explosion, the result would be somewhere between "a firecracker and a mouse fart" (the amount of antimatter present was measurable in nanograms). | |
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In Independence Day, when describing the mass of the alien mothership, it's said to be "a quarter the size of the moon." | |
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At the end of every song in DanceDanceRevolution A, the game shows an estimate of how many calories you burned and compares it to the number of calories typically present in a common food item (paraphrased example: "The energy you used is 60% of a bunch of grapes"). | |
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In Goats, Phillip needs one of these to comprehend the number of people he's killing every time he creates and destroys another universe: | |
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In Plague Inc., your plague is measured by these, comparing the infectivity and death rates to the rate real life diseases spread and killed, such as HIV, Spanish Flu, or the common cold. | |
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Starting near the end of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All, Phoenix starts making a habit measuring the size of various pieces of furniture (or a safe) by how many Pearls he could fit on or in them. | |
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In Help!, as The Beatles record a song in the middle of Salisbury Plain with the Army protecting them, the bad guys burrow underneath, setting a massive amount of explosives labelled in military-grade stencil "Equal to exactly one millionth of the explosives exploded in one week of the Second World War". | |
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In "STEM Strong" from Mack & Moxy, half a mile is measured as "440 Macks." Mack is an anthropomorphic moose. | |
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One measurement for caloric content is to compare foods to the equivalent number (or fractional number, as the case may be) of McDonalds Big Macs (540 calories in the US, 27% of the average recommended daily caloric intake). Discussed in one Pv P strip, where Skull notes that even monsters do that (one plump Bavarian kid is apparently equivalent to 500 Big Macs). A somewhat more peculiar measure: The Economist invented, and uses, a measurement called "The Big Mac Index" to compare currencies; since McDonalds is very strictly standardized, the price of a Big Mac directly corresponds to what it costs for the restaurant to serve it; as such, comparing the cost of a Big Mac to currency exchange rates can tell you when a currency is under- or over-valued. In some places (like Italy) the measurement is skewed by the very large, nearly 100%, "tax on junk food": a Big Mac in Florence may cost 6.5 euros (7.88 USD), while the same Big Mac in Vienna, where junk food is not taxed, only costs 3.5 euros (4.24 USD). |
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The problem with trying this sort of thing is lampshaded in one of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, explaining that the titular guide (known for its breezy style) gets around the whole problem simply by stating "Space is big. I mean really big. You may thing it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to space." | |
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El Goonish Shive: "Aw sweet! I'm a unit of measurement!" | |
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In Chernobyl, Scherbina initially (and inaccurately) dismisses the amount of radiation coming from the disaster as "the same as a chest x-ray." Once accurate readings of the radiation levels are taken, Legasov points out that the fire is emitting the equivalent of two Hiroshimas every hour. And it's been burning for 20 hours already, and will burn for months. | |
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Space Battleship Yamato 2199 describes the Floating Continent found on Jupiter as around the same size as Australia. | |
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This Bites!: When they notice that the Going Merry's talking audibly on the SBS, Pekoms says he wants no part of seizing the ship even if Big Mom wants it, stating that the antics of the Straw Hat crew are Emperor levels of crazy. At minimum. During the escape from Enies Lobby, Nami's actions lead to Cross making one of these comparisons later on: |
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Doctor Who: The Children in Need special "Time Crash" says, as a joke, that the explosion caused by the time crash will make a hole in the space-time continuum exactly the size of Belgium. The Fifth Doctor remarks that Belgium (as a unit of measurement) is a bit underdramatic, but a bit later uses it as a shorthand for the catastrophe, as in "Two minutes to Belgium!" | |
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In Asterix and the Olympic Games, the length of the Olympic track is specified as 600 times that of the foot of Heracles, which, together with a modern measurement in metres, is used to estimate what Heracles' shoe size would be. | |
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The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Author Justin Pierce explains in The Rant that an upcoming multi-part comic will be handled by adding extra panels to the bottom of a single page, rather than spreading it out over multiple pages. Then he starts measuring the length of the comic in "Toms": | |
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Knowledge engine WolframAlpha is programmed to give a few examples when it gives an answer involving any sort of units. It doesn't always get the "well known" part right and does things like comparing lengths of time to equinox precession periods. Giving it the request "volume of human body multiplied by human population" makes it return an answer in... "person liters". (460 billion personL, specifically, if you want to know.) The query 1.15 teraelectronvolts is equated to (among other things) 1.2 times the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito. |
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Parodied in Monty Python's Flying Circus, as part of a spoof documentary on Tchaikovsky. | |
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Katamari Damacy illustrates the size of your katamari in terms of an item you've previously picked up in that level. For example, your katamari might be the size of 320 watermelons, or 115 caramel candies, or 6000 blue whales (depending on the level). | |
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In the blogs on StephenVlog, Mallory uses pepperonis to measure how spicy food is. | |
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Ghostbusters: Egon uses a convenient Twinkie to describe the current PKE levels in the containment unit. Ironically, he gets something about the size of Mr. Stay-Puft. | |
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These kind of measurements come up on QI from time to time. Apparently the UK purchases enough wrapping paper for the Christmas season every year to gift-wrap the island of Guernsey. | |
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Played with in League of Legends, which uses 'units' to describe the range of character attacks. The length of a 'unit' is consistent throughout the game, but was contextualised by the developers as one hundred units being roughly the diameter of Teemo, the Swift Scout. | |
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On How It's Made, when discussing the manufacture of steel coffins: "This requires 900 tons of pulling force — the equivalent of hoisting 27 fully loaded tractor-trailers." | |
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In the South Park episode "More Crap", the European Fecal Standards and Measurements measures the size of craps in courics (named after Katie Couric), and one couric equals 2.5 pounds of poo. | |
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In Rivers of London, Peter and Abigail have designed a scale for measuring the "intensity" of a ghost. The name they've given the unit is the "annie", presumably after Annie Sawyer from Being Human (UK). | |
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Gaming website Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a running tradition of comparing a game's size to its equivalency in "Peggles", the total size of a copy of Peggle (21-ish megs). | |
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City size can also be described similarly; Sunnydale, for instance, is "a one Starbucks town."note Despite the fact that the town contains a university, airport, and castle. | |
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In Relative Disasters the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is described as impacting with the force of 4,500,000,000 Hiroshima bombs. | |
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In "The Whale Episode" on Sid the Science Kid, the buzz-phrase of the day was "nonstandard measurement." It all got started because Sid wanted to know how someone could measure the length of a blue whale. Teacher Susie taught the kids about the idea of "nonstandard measurement" and also that there were certain rules - like that they could use objects lying around to measure things or even themselves, but the units all had to be the same within a particular measurement. Gerald had the idea that they could use him to measure things and they found out that their classroom was "14 Geralds" long. | |
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In a Family Guy cutaway, Peter is working as Jackee Harry's personal shopper and is confused by some of her requests, such as a desk of Cheez-Its. | |
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Happens to a lesser degree (of both extremity and known-ness) in LoadingReadyLive #34's Wasabi Roulette. When told half of the replacement dishes have "extra wasabi", Paul's understandable question is "How much extra?" Alex gives his response as "Heather wasabi." | |
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Housepets!: The Milton Ferrets are said to have a net worth equivalent to the GNP of three small countries or one medium one. | |
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Sunshine's Icarus Two is built around "a stellar bomb with a mass equivalent to Manhattan Island". (How heavy is Manhattan Island? That depends on how thick it is.) | |
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In the Skylark Series, instead of giving the hardness of arenak and inoson on the Mohs scale, or the strength of arenak and inoson in pounds per square inch at failure, they are said to be "500 (or 2000) times harder and stronger than the hardest and strongest steel". | |
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When the fanbase compared the size of Super Smash Bros. Melee's "Final Destination" stage to that of Brawl, someone had the idea to use a character, cloned and stood end-to-end, as a unit of measurement. The result? Melee's was "thirteen-and-a-half Falcons long". Brawl's was thirteen. There was another attempt to use Samus Aran as a unit of height. | |
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The Soviet movie Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures has this personified in the construction foreman — he gives a lengthy speech consisting entirely of this trope, culminating in this exchange: | |
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