Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

[IntheGroove]

Now the California wildfires are as big as the Grand Canyon, however big that is...

[Frank S]

Now the California wildfires are as big as the Grand Canyon, however big that is...

Or about as large as a couple medium sized ranches in Texas the O'Connor and the Wagner

[Toolmaker51]

So, intent was to say even tiny Rhode island, at 37 miles wide, most wouldn't want to walk that....but this is even better.
https://www.quahog.org/factsfolklore/index.php?id=12

[IntheGroove]

Now the fires in California are the size of Delaware...

[Frank S]

Now the fires in California are the size of Delaware...

nature's brush removal

[Jon]

I like this one. Conceptually similar to the small/big refrigerator measurement, but not a meme, a real example. Original tweet from the San Miguel Sheriff twitter account is here: https://twitter.com/sheriffalert/sta...81862244749315

[Toolmaker51]

I like this one. [snipped] Original tweet from the San Miguel Sheriff twitter account is here: https://twitter.com/sheriffalert/sta...81862244749315

East bound lane huh? Clearly even granite knows it's time to beat the exodus from Kalifornia.

[Philip Davies]

It’s a LARGE boulder for a road, but a SMALL boulder for a mountain!

[DIYSwede]

Hybrid units (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric...s#Hybrid_units):

"Some measurements are reported in units derived from both customary and metric units.
For example:

Heat rate from a power plant: BTU/kWh.
Federal automobile exhaust emission standards: grams per mile.
Caffeine in beverages: milligrams per (fluid) ounce.
A standard method for sizing tires combines millimeters for overall width and inches for the rim diameter on which they fit.
In lighting, light bulbs use eighths of an inch for bulb diameter and full inches for fluorescent tube lengths,
while the socket is always in millimeters (for example, the standard "medium Edison screw" is E24).

On recently introduced Christmas lights, however, millimeters are often used with small globe-shaped bulbs (G30 and G40),
and with miniature LED sets, where the standard T1¾ (​7⁄32-inch tube) ones are sometimes called M5 (5 mm miniature; not to be confused with M5 thread).
One among many examples is in Table 8, chapter 9, of the National Electrical Code Handbook (8th ed.),
where resistance of conductors per unit length is given in ohms per thousand feet.

Other units are based on customary units, but use power-of-ten factors and metric prefixes.
For example, distance to target for a U.S. submarine is expressed in kiloyards (kyd) rather than some combination of miles, yards, and feet.
Telephone transmission line length and loop distances are measured in kilofeet.
In some fields of civil engineering (especially structural engineering), and architecture, large loads and forces
(such as the weight of a building or the amount of load applied to a column) are measured in kips
(kilopounds or 1000 pounds-force - NOT kiloinches/ sec!)
instead of short tons-force (2000 pounds-force), which are used in virtually all other non-metric industries in the United States,
as well as in common usage among the public, when dealing with large values of force."

[IntheGroove]

All I want to know is if it bigger than a bread box...