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  1. Re:Comparison to Greece? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microbe Mat the Size of Greece Discovered In the Sea

    OK, in standard units it's 6.3 times the size of Wales. This is roughly equivalent to two Lativas or one Cuba.

  2. Re:surface area of a football field by Whiteox · · Score: 2, Funny · on Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors

    Forget Rhode Island or Texas... always use Wales.
    http://www.simonkelk.co.uk/sizeofwales.html

  3. Re:Note on Units by Whiteox · · Score: 1 · on Spectacular Fossil Forests Found In US Coalmine

    http://www.simonkelk.co.uk/sizeofwales.html may help.

  4. Re:It's cool by Whiteox · · Score: 1 · on Building a 5-Ton Calculator From 19th-Century Plans

    According to this site: http://www.simonkelk.co.uk/sizeofwales.html
    its weight is about 1.002 African Elephants.

  5. Re:Wales, as a common unit of size!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on First Evidence Of Under-Ice Volcanoes In Antarctica

    There is actually an on line calculator to convert obscure SI units into standard Wales multiples.

    http://www.simonkelk.co.uk/sizeofwales.html

    Very useful.

  6. Re:size of a football field ... by Rogerborg · · Score: 1 · on Football Field-Sized Kite Powers Latest Freighter

    Assuming 100 x 53 yards, it's 63.38 times the size of a Blue Whale, or 264.93 times the size of a London double-decker bus.

  7. Re:25 miles south of Rotterdam? by badfish99 · · Score: 1 · on Creators of Massive Botnet Arrested
    That means nothing to me. Who knows how big Canada is?

    The correct unit to use when explaining the size of countries is the size of wales

  8. Re:Credit card ? by HBPiper · · Score: 1 · on Verisign Develops Token for Age Verification

    But that would be the size of the State of Vermont!

  9. Re:Damn measurement standards..!! by The+Grassy+Knoll · · Score: 1 · on Use Multiple Channels for Faster Wireless Networking

    Never mind freight trains, how many times the size of Wales is that?