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Old 08-19-2019, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by JoeP View Post
A cubic meter is damnably hard to visualize. What is it?
  • A couch, if you squashed it into a smaller cube
  • A closet, if deformed into a cube
  • 1/15 of those really huge dumpsters
  • Three dressers, arranged in a cube
  • A cube where every side is a 100-watt solar panel
  • 1000 one-liter milk jugs, stacked in a cube
  • A rock so damned big you just have to work around it
  • 2/3rds of a washing machine

It's just off the chain, dude. But it's the only thing we have for measuring things larger than milk.
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