Length shifting - Meters in your hands (original) (raw)

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Meters in your hands 1 meter per mm (Magnification of ×10-3) **10 [ | -6 -3 0 3 6 9 12 15 18 ]** If trees were 1 cm high... 103 meters per meter

Doables: schoolbus, 3 story building, 1/10 mile, street, house plan, speed-of-sound ruler 330 air (variation), 1500 h2o 5k steel 5.5k glass

Other meta info on zero magnification page.

Notes: Titanic image derived from Rigging Plan (300K BIG) from Deck Plans for "Olympic" and "Titanic".

History: 2003-Feb-03 Repaired links - 4 fixed, 1 replaced. 2001.Apr.20 Added link to `How Big Are Things?'. 1999.Apr.21 Added Titanic at a reader's suggestion. 1998.Jun.17 Corrected error with magnitude boundaries (3.333->3.162). 1997.Oct.07 Added 747, 737, football field, people, car. 1997.Aug.25 Created.