ironeagl

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For the people / businesses who book these flights.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Could have also been lost through a storage unit reposession or the like.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago

FYI: there is actually an XKCD font if you want to match the original more closely. https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Exactly, the pandemic is over... because it's endemic now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It takes a while to gather the data, new areas all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Almost makes it sound like Vulcan is Chinese.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, you're telling me a football field is approximately one football field in size?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

8' x 1 mile works, but the way it would usually be subdivided is to be a 16th section - or 1/4 of 1/4. Like a 16-light window. 2 x 2 furlongs, or a quarter-mile by quarter-mile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The acre was used to subdivide up square miles. It makes more sense if you know 43,650 = 660 * 66. Also, 660 feet is exactly 1/8 of a mile. So once a square mile had been surveyed, you could split each side in half to get 4 squares of 160 acres. You could then split each of those again to get 40 acres (hence the "40 acres and a mule"), and then you could split them again to get 10-acre squares. Then you could split them into 5-acre rectangles, etc. The rectangles are good at keeping access to an existing road, although the skinniness isn't great. And all of these sub-divisions could live on the same grid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

and 10 chains = 1 furlong = 1/8 mile

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