EXPLAINING EXTREME METRICS.

The weight of life (above)
Vox adds it all up. https://bit.ly/2xsp908

Nigel Holmes has made many big number explanations. Here’s four examples.
We often see these mega-numbers used in the news. But do we really understand their magnitude?

A party for everyone in the world (from National Geographic magazine).

Doubling numbers gives surprising results.

Here’s Nigel’s take on the enormity of the U.S. national debt (in 2010).

World population
Seven billion and growing. An explanatory video from NPR. Click on the image to watch the video. Or here: https://bit.ly/1ikyI0f

Speed of light
James O’Donoghue (NASA) made these animations to give us a better idea of light speed.

World debt
$63 trillion, that’s all. And this is from 2017. Infographic by Visual Capitalist. https://bit.ly/2BWrArR

Cheese overload
A 1.39 billion-pound cheese surplus, visualized by Vox.

A related post, Charles and Ray Eames’ landmark “Powers of Ten:” https://wp.me/p7LiLW-21z