...nearly as long as the length of 100 school buses in the United States, which can be around 35 to 45 feet long.
1mon 14d ago by sopuli.xyz/u/passenger in anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de from www.newsweek.com
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/29344154
Finland's longest bridge opens in Helsinki - but not for cars
Americans, are you ok?
No. Not at all.
I had to convert that to bananas. About 7,000 7-inchers. Or 4000 ft long hot dogs.
Now it makes sense.
Well obviously the buses are a stand-in for the Finnish trams. School buses are the closest thing to public transit that exists in parts of the US.
The funniest part about this is either they chose to specifically look up the length of a school bus to write this article or they just happen to be a school bus enthusiast excited to share their random school bus facts.
When you don't know meters, any measure is better that your imperial one. Bus, football fields, bananas, etc
Anything but metric
that is the community you're in, yes
How many football pitches is that?
- Approximately 11 Association Football pitches
- Approximately 13 American Handegg pitches
- Approximately between 6 and 9 "Aussie Rules" Football Pitches
- Approximately 8 to 9 Gaelic Football Pitches
- 12 Canadian Football Pitches
12 rugby league fields (measured try line to try line—i.e. disregarding the in-goal area).
Thank you! I am embarrassed to have missed that one.
(I also missed Rugby Union, but I'm less bothered by that)
You also missed rugby union, but from what I can see that doesn't have a particularly standardised length? In Australia I suspect most rugby union fields are probably 100 m because they just reuse the more popular rugby league grounds. Elsewhere it's probably the same as soccer.