[agucho]

Mighty interesting, sure. Still, I can't stand these awe-driven narratives. The formula is getting old and in the jumping from one wow to the next a lot of the real questions and facts are left half-explained. And as somebody already pointed out, the units... football fields, Hiroshima bombs and the area of California... they should standardize those already, right? Journalists could use abbreviations and the rest of us would get to write unit converters when learning a new programming language.

[dTal]

Well, you know the trouble with standards...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-conv...

[mirimir]

Right. I could probably rewrite it in about five sentences, plus footnotes ;)

[pokemongoaway]

Exactly! When future historians read back at writing from our time period - if it is still around - then how do you think they'll characterize it?

[agucho]

ha! Good question, I guess they'll say its magical realism with strong late-cuneiform influences, judging from what little is left from the devastating eruption from a vulcano no one ever found.

[maxxxxx]

They should just write "really big".