[znkynz]

A 15 story building... is the most odd relative measurement to use - wtf?

[hunter-gatherer]

I used to live in a 14 story building, so I have a pretty good approximation of the size.

[simondotau]

Can you suggest something better? I’ve seen a 15 story building, so I’ve got some idea of scale.

[ac2u]

Around 14 million SEGA Dreamcasts

[znkynz]

~53-67 Metres?

[eknkc]

You know what, 15 story building is more intuitive.

For a couple of meters it works, I can imagine a 3 meter wide asteroid just fine.

But at 50 meters it becomes a distance unit for me and I can’t easily imagine an object with a 50m dimension. I’ve seen actual 15 story buildings though.

[mountainriver]

150 foot longs

[3eb7988a1663]

Is that a pre or post lawsuit foot long?

(Subway was sued that the "foot longs" were only 11-11.5 inches in length: https://www.startribune.com/subway-to-ensure-footlongs-measu...)

[janderson215]

$750 before tax

[nkrisc]

I find it useful, I could immediately picture a several buildings about that height I know.

[janderson215]

It’s about 1/4 furlong

[mehwoot]

It's about 1 olympic sized swimming pool long, although I guess we're only allowed to use that for volume

[owlninja]

About 200 hundred ducks stacked on top of each other.

[janderson215]

African or European?

[mark-r]

No weirder than measuring things by feet.

[aledalgrande]

You'd be happy to know we measure the size of horses in hands

[Galatians4_16]

How many SG1 Furlings is that?