We get frequent comparisons to Olympic swimming pools, London buses and elephants among other things, when people try to help us image the volume of something.
However I am unable to compute, even approximately, 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter, as expressed by unnamed scientists in this story.
Milky Way clogged with trillions of tonnes of ‘dirty, toxic space grease’, study finds
Ahh_Bisto says
From the article:
“It’s dirty, likely toxic and only forms in the environment of interstellar space – and our laboratory*. It’s also intriguing that organic material of this kind – material that gets incorporated into planetary systems – is so abundant.”
*”where we make I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.”
H.P. Saucecraft says
I’m still struggling with the “Morrissey” unit of measurement defined in Dr. Volume’s Bunnymen piece – he states that “one billion Morrisseys equals one McCulloch”, and while he doesn’t show his workings I’m prepared to accept this as fact. But it does make you wonder how many McCullochs equal, say, a Morrison. I think we’d be up in the 40 trillion trillion trillion region.
The Muswell Hillbilly says
Van, Jim, Toni or Supermarket?
H.P. Saucecraft says
I think any of those would qualify. Morrison’s Supermarket would get us nicely back on track with I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.
Carl says
Or indeed Sterling, of VU fame.
Moose the Mooche says
How many Mozzas do you get for a Mo?
Twang says
Apropos of nothing I did fleetingly think of Marlon Brando when I saw the title of this thread.
Moose the Mooche says
A busy night for the On the Waterfront Hitmaker.