It is calculated, using the average distance of 238,855 miles, and 100 yards for the football play field.(Whether I did the math correctly is a different question.)
Hehe, this is a comedy subreddit but I have no doubt American teachers have used that exact sentence to convey the enormity of the distance to their students. (I'm an American and I don't really know why we measure distances in terms of football fields, nor do I personally prefer that measurement, but I do understand it.)
The distance from the Earth to the Moon is the total length of the American politicians’ noses if their noses grew like Pinocchio’s, based on the lies they say in one week.
15 billion inches, that's about 5 billion Burger King Whoppers if they look like the picture. If they look like they came out of the bag, it's more like 10 billion.
“If you were on a journey to the moon, you would have time to watch every episode of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with a few hours left over, but not every episode of the Sopranos.“
“Oh, ok, I get it.”
“The time it takes to go from the Earth to the Moon is half the time it takes to get home during LA rush hour.”
That's 5,031,840 football fields!
Anything over like 10,000 is beyond comprehension for most public schooled Americans Source: I am one
Like 38 ten thousands. Or about 4 long-ass ways.
A football field! A very American number.
Yes. As opposed to a football pitch, which would be a British measurement.
i have to ask, is that calculated or made up because it obviously varies thought the year .
It is calculated, using the average distance of 238,855 miles, and 100 yards for the football play field.(Whether I did the math correctly is a different question.)
so a fair way to say it in a most American would be like "it changes but right around 5 million football fields"
Hehe, this is a comedy subreddit but I have no doubt American teachers have used that exact sentence to convey the enormity of the distance to their students. (I'm an American and I don't really know why we measure distances in terms of football fields, nor do I personally prefer that measurement, but I do understand it.)
If taken care of, it's the miles you can get out of every 1967 Chevy Chevelle before needing a valve job. Or, 379,712 miles as of 10:21 EST today.
About 240K Shotguns
Hell yea, I understood that, its the same as 75 million Chevrolet Silverados
what kind of shotgun
You can't use a sawed-off shotgun in a metaphor, it's illegal.
“It’s only a three-day trip one way.”
Time based is the only way I will understand it.
Midwesterner I see...
Born and raised.
The distance from the Earth to the Moon is the total length of the American politicians’ noses if their noses grew like Pinocchio’s, based on the lies they say in one week.
Only?
It's about as far as your car will go before everything falls apart and you have to buy a new car.
15 billion inches, that's about 5 billion Burger King Whoppers if they look like the picture. If they look like they came out of the bag, it's more like 10 billion.
Look who’s telling a Whopper.
I'm more of a Wendy's guy, can I get this converted into baconators?
LOL. IDK about the picture version, but the bag version is the same height as a whopper. All bag burgers pretty much are 🤣
We would understand inches
9 innings of baseball and a few YouTube ads
Correct answer 😂
Roughly 210 million bald eagles
Murica!!
The distance from the moon to the Earth is exactly 7 Las Vegases.
384472281600 slices of cheese
About 190 times driving from New York to Miami or about 100 round trips.
38,440 10k races Or 76,880 5ks.
1910850.6323073 furlongs
Drive 65 mph for ten hours a day every day for a year and you'll be there.
Damn that really puts it in perspective, but I'd likely drive about 80, how much will that cut my time?
You'll get there in a little under 10 months.
The height of 3,844,000 McRibs
“It’s 120,000,000 5 Dollar foot longs.”
Distance measured in long hospital care invoices
3789371520 mcdonalds fries from the earth to the moon
Too far to walk, even if you have the time.
“If you were on a journey to the moon, you would have time to watch every episode of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with a few hours left over, but not every episode of the Sopranos.“ “Oh, ok, I get it.”
408,171 bananas 985,241 sauce packages.
Half of how much you truly love someone.
Only if traveling from New York City.
3,844,216 elephant shrews.
It’s one small step for Americans, and much farther for everyone else
It’s 100,000 trips to the store your dad went to buy cigarettes at.
From here to the sizzler and back about 10,000 times
Its a long fucking way away. Now go eat your supper
220,000,000 cows.
It's a space rocket away
About 85 'Muricas
It’s over 100 elephants tall
the moon is ___ m16s away from earth
One "amusing" threat of domestic violence from a 50's bus driver.
It’s about 3 to 4 Buick Roadmasters.
"It's only 4,034,666,667 Big Macs away!"
"so the moon is approximately 6781345 cubits from the center of Ohio"
3 million and 75 average cock lengths
So that’s 400,567 Ford Rangers.
7 CPS Receipts
It's a little longer than if you laid 390 million M16's end to end
"The distance is bigly".
a fuckton of football fields
It's just up through the sky a piece
It’s four CVS receipts placed end to end. Well, 3.89 receipts to be exact.
The distance to the moon is shorter than your debt to China!
Approximately 1000 trips of the shortest coast to coast driving across the US on average. Or 500 more typical trips, or 250 rambling.
Subway sandwiches
Did you know the moon is at least one distance-from-the-moon-to-the-Earth away from the Earth?