[loloquwowndueo]

Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement

[fnordpiglet]

It’s a real condition. For me it’s jet liners of various makes. I had to rewrite the quote as “0.005 Boeing 777’s” to be able to comprehend just how strong those snails teeth are.

[eth0up]

Sorry, but that's what 14 (standard) pickup trucks of yak hair was invented for.

[djtriptych]

ok but what color is the yak hair?

[thenewwazoo]

Same color as the bike shed, obviously

[eth0up]

Not from Unitzikstan I see

White, of course; that way the statisticians can dye them any color they want. But for ultra high precision I do recommend the Boeing system. But be sure to use the older models, before private equity firms replaced all the metal parts with zipties. If you can't find a quality Boeing (plausible), consider 1.1 Blue Whales (tricky).

fnordpiglet was being deliberately humble with the decimals. It's accurate down to the semi firkin. Not to be confused with a quarter Tod.

Ignore the redundant bike shed comment, as that fits precisely 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar. Anyone with a bike should know that.

[djtriptych]

White is so outdated.

I wish we'd stop ignoring Councilman Blatt's proposal to triple-dye the yak hair Imperial Blue, to minimize the color variation and therefore the effects of mass loss due to black body radation.

We are, after all, trying to be accurate here.

Pickups of Imperial Blue Yak Hair (or PIBYHs) is the clear road to the future and it's dismaying to see any other response from a fellow Unitsman.

[bell-cot]

Understandable, with how many there are to pick from, and the wiggle room in the longest ones -

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/As...

[kulahan]

OP is talking about a football field, not a soccer field. It’s a common joke in America that things have to be measured in football terms.

In the “for what it’s worth” department, Brits called it soccer too. I have no idea why they swapped to football recently.

[necovek]

What's the size of football fields in use for the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) World Cup happening in USA (among others) right now?

[kulahan]

You should ask the person I replied to - they already posted soccer field sizes.

[Rooster61]

Wait, I can do that? Here I've been using Smoots this whole time (with great difficulty might I add).

[rz2k]

Obviously it weighs 10,300 baseballs, which are 26 football fields long.

[nrdvana]

It turns out an astroturf American football field probably weighs 1700 tons, mostly from the 6 inches of stone base under the astroturf. So 3300lbs is .00097 football fields.

[isatty]

A football field is by far a better measurement than 3300 one pound bags of sugar.

[sph]

It is not if all you know are football fields and not American football fields.

I still don’t know how they even compare.

[bch]

That's why we use the %fill of an Olympic Sized Pool - doesn't matter from what continent the field comes, they fill the pool equally.

[necovek]

Aren't there significant differences in allowed depth (from minimum of 2m to maximum of 3m)?

[bch]

Good catch. We've run into a problem somewhere along this journey of comparing the compression strength of a snails tooth to the tensile strength of a spiders web.

[necovek]

So a snail's tooth can only hold a 2m deep worth of Olympic pool (sea)water, but it breaks before you get to a 3m deep pool.

[throw1234567891]

Only if you don’t understand that 3300 one pound bags of sugar is 3300 pounds. What an enlightening conversation here. Crème de la crème of modern thinkers.

[drdec]

Approximately ten defensive linemen