``Low-temperature electron micrograph of a cluster of E. coli bacteria, magnified 10,000 times. Each individual bacterium is oblong shaped.'' Wikipedia: Image:E coli at 10000x, original.jpg.)
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A pint of Guinness.
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The Shire horse is the largest horse breed on average.
An average height at the withers---I've no idea---is 1.78 m (5'8'') and the record is 2.2 m.
A typical stallion mass is a megagram (i.e., a metric tonne).
Maybe a shire horse would think of horsepower as mere foal frolic.
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The Arguello Inc. Harvest Oil Platform off the coast of California.
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``The Arguello Inc. Harvest Oil Platform (figure 1) is located
about 10 km off the coast of central California near Point Conception.
An impressive structure, the platform is attached to the sea floor and sits
in about 200 m of water near the western entrance to the
Santa Barbara Channel. Conditions at Harvest are typical of the
open ocean and the seas can be quite heavy. Ocean swell
and wind waves average about 2 m, though waves over 7 m have been
experienced during powerful winter storms. Prevailing winds
are from the northwest and average about 6 m/s (15 mph).
The platform is served by helicopters from the Santa Maria, California,
airport, and is regularly visited by supply boats. Operational
since 1991, Harvest has produced over
44 million barrels of oil (as of July, 1997).''
---quoted from Haines, B. et al. (2007).
This is about half a day of world consumption circa year 2004 ( CIA: The World FactBook).
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The world and continent population growth with projections for the future.
The vertical scale is population in millions. The scale is logarithmic: factors of 10 are one unit or 1 dex. The scale shows 3 a smidgen dex.
The horizontal scale shows year.
The researchers who make the projections do their best, but the projections are still very uncertain.
The data was drawn from the United Nations: Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Population Division with the specific page being World Population Prospects: Thw 2006 Revision World: Population Database.
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Gray wolf (Canis lupus).
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