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iphone is now a unit of measurement? ugh
It's better than football fields though
Or washing machines
Hey, they started with millimeters so any additional info is kinda passable (in my books) as a visual / imagination stimulus.
Sometimes it can be really helpful, like with the distance from Earth to Moon, almost 385 000 km — that’s yeah, a lot, this gives the facts.
..but, when I found out that all the planets from our solar system packed next to each other would fit into this gap with some space to spare — this gives the perspective.
How many bananas is that?