Only ONE Luxembourg fits into Luxembourg? Hmmm…I’m skeptical.
i almost didn’t understand denmark until i remembered greenland and the faroe islands as being part of the danish realm
I have been using this Luxembourg metric for a while already in my mental math about distances and sizes of other places. It’s actually a really nice point in the scale of the universe to use as a unit. It provides more easily digestible numbers for everything from the size of Malta (0,12 Luxembourgs) to the size of huge bodies such as stars and black holes.
*The surface area of the sun is approximately 6.000.000.000 Luxembourgs.*
*The Earth’s total surface area is approximately 197.244 Luxembourgs of which 57.357 are land.*
You can also use it to define a somewhat useful unit of distance, the diameter of a circle with an area exactly equal to that of 1 Luxembourg ≈ 57,38 km.
*The distance from the Gëlle Fra to Ürümqi is approximately 103,5 Luxembourgs.*
*The Earth’s equatorial circumference is approximately 698,4 Luxembourgs.*
You can also define further hilarious (but less readily useful) units of volume etc. in a similar manner. (e.g. 1 volumetric Luxembourg = the volume of a sphere having a surface area equal to that of Luxembourg.)
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Only ONE Luxembourg fits into Luxembourg? Hmmm…I’m skeptical.
i almost didn’t understand denmark until i remembered greenland and the faroe islands as being part of the danish realm
I have been using this Luxembourg metric for a while already in my mental math about distances and sizes of other places. It’s actually a really nice point in the scale of the universe to use as a unit. It provides more easily digestible numbers for everything from the size of Malta (0,12 Luxembourgs) to the size of huge bodies such as stars and black holes.
*The surface area of the sun is approximately 6.000.000.000 Luxembourgs.*
*The Earth’s total surface area is approximately 197.244 Luxembourgs of which 57.357 are land.*
You can also use it to define a somewhat useful unit of distance, the diameter of a circle with an area exactly equal to that of 1 Luxembourg ≈ 57,38 km.
*The distance from the Gëlle Fra to Ürümqi is approximately 103,5 Luxembourgs.*
*The Earth’s equatorial circumference is approximately 698,4 Luxembourgs.*
You can also define further hilarious (but less readily useful) units of volume etc. in a similar manner. (e.g. 1 volumetric Luxembourg = the volume of a sphere having a surface area equal to that of Luxembourg.)
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