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How Big Are Things?
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| kilometer's Room - looking at a sheet of graph paper |
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look at the entire room |
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| between | 15 | |
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| sun | 9 | |
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| texas | 6 | |
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| bacteria | -6 | |
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| atom | -9 |
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US Census Tiger Map Server
Their "Scale" may not say 1:1000000 because they assume a 75bpi screen.
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visible horizon
at eye-height;
at 10 m;
at 100 m;
(distance to horizon is ~100 × sqrt(height))
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(neglecting topography of course. eg, in smooth seas)
Wildfire (Arizona, June 2002)
(zoom out 10x)
Image (1 MB) from here. About 300 thousand acres burned. |
 106 acres (106 is a million) |
Earth's crust - thickness:
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Crustal thickness maps: Global, another, 2°; North America; histograms Maximum thickness results from a "double" crust - one plate pushed under another. |
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oceanic ~min / ~ave / ~max |
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continental ~ave / ~max |
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atmosphere (ave 10% and 50% pressure heights) mean ocean depth ocean crust (mostly 7±1 km) |
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land height (maximum and average) | |
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ocean depth (max, ave) | |
Antartic ice sheet
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Rule of thumb: atmosphere presure decreases by about 1/3 per 7 km. 1/27 (4%), 1/9 (10%), and 1/3 (30%) |
Thumbnail of meter Room floor.
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This image is only very roughly aligned with the one below.
source This diagram stops at sea level - land surface height is not shown. :( Eg, Everest is this high.
Pacific crust decending under Oregon Info here.
There is a scale map on the floor.
 Numbers are density (g/cm^3) - light rock floats higher. You can see the thin blue ocean upper left. <- West, East -> The "-100" depth under "Oregon" is a typo - it should of couse be "0". |
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