[kdazzle]

I think the universal agreement is actually to measure things in football fields

[llm_trw]

Now if we could only agree if we should use soccer or handegg field sizes.

[vundercind]

Handegg, because there’s an actual standard size for them.

Which is a worse decision for a sport but makes them better for measurement.

Soccer’s trying to make their sport worse by standardizing, but they’re not there yet.

[bmacho]

It will be more appealing to nerds when they could say "transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom"

[throwup238]

The number of atomic transitions a cesium 133 atom makes when fired across a football field at the speed of sound.

[tuatoru]

... in dry air at STP.

[rascul]

Which handegg field size though? There is not just one standard. I think we should use the Canadian size, since they created it.

[whiterock]

which is also not normalized. A referee once told me that - in theory - football fields can be square. I think it was 80m x 80m since 80m is the minimum length and the maximum width. Correct me if I am wrong.

[mmcclimon]

Field size for American football is definitely standardized: 100 yards between goal lines and 160 feet wide. Lots of Americans will have an intuitive sense for how long something like "three football fields" is.

[sidewndr46]

But that intuitive size would in fact be wrong. The size we associate with an American football field is more commonly going to be the distance including the end zones.

[madaxe_again]

If you’re Australian, they can be circular.

[croisillon]

with a banana for scale