SpaceX raises another $100M

Re:SpaceX raises another $100M by kinkrtyavimoodh on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:10PM (#15793392)

Just as a side note, that's such a weird thing to compare against... What intuition does the average reader have about the price of container ships? If anything, I learnt that container ships are less costly than I would have guessed...

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Re:SpaceX raises another $100M by drawnwren on Monday November 27, 2017 @08:23PM (#15793454)

I now have exactly one conversion of value between Instagram and cargo ships. I'm not sure this cleared anything up for me.

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Re:SpaceX raises another $100M by lostlogin on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @01:26AM (#15794906)

It’s probably a misunderstanding of common media units of measure. If an Olympic swimming pool or an Empire State Building are a valid unit of measure, why not a container ship?

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Re:SpaceX raises another $100M by kinkrtyavimoodh on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @03:20PM (#15801067)

Those are probably weird too, but most people have some idea of how tall tall buildings are (even if they haven't been to NYC), and likewise have probably been to a pool.

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Re:SpaceX raises another $100M by garmaine on Monday November 27, 2017 @09:01PM (#15793623)

Well it’s at least visually comparable to the more standard units of measurement : the VW bug and football fields.

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