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Re:Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas ... by throwaway_pdp09 on Friday March 27, 2020 @03:32PM (#22706019)
The correct unit is the Whales. 3 to 8 times the size of Whales.
Re:Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas ... by TrainedMonkey on Friday March 27, 2020 @05:05PM (#22706898)
Since we are doing math and all, area of Wales is 20,740 km^2 ^1, this gives average weight per m^2:

0.0000675024 kg / m^2 = 1400000 / 20740000000

Now then, per ^2 soil weights between 1200 and 1700 kg per cubic meter. Let's take upper estimate to account for constant rain and minor human infestation in Wales (weight of cubic meter of concrete is 2400 kg ^3).

This gives depth of Wales that equals to the pressure experienced by dmurray's chest of 0.0000000397 meters of ~40 nanometers. That is greater than feature size in modern CPU's...

Well, there you go folks, I dare say that is a more useless (and maybe more fun too?) comparison than comparing pressure with jumbo jets.

^1 - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=wales+a...

^2 - https://www.reference.com/science/much-cubic-meter-soil-weig...

^3 - https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=concret...

Re:Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas ... by throwaway_pdp09 on Friday March 27, 2020 @05:46PM (#22707199)
Whales. Not Wales.

Mass, not area.

Far more plausible and chosen for the oceanic theme.

Re:Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas ... by kingofpandora on Friday March 27, 2020 @08:19PM (#22708085)
The chance that TrainedMonkey did this unintentionally is 0.0000000397%.
Re:Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas ... by markdown on Friday March 27, 2020 @04:46PM (#22706708)
I only understand weight in olympic swimming pools.
Re:Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas ... by willvarfar on Friday March 27, 2020 @05:07PM (#22706916)
An El Reg unit of measurement, no?

Oh the nostalgia!

Re:Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas ... by throwaway_pdp09 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @02:53PM (#22713416)
El Reg? No... Pretty much an ISO standard by now...
Re:Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas ... by ethbro on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:34AM (#22734964)
At what temperature and altitude?