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* Obviously, this sees much use in [[Loaded Words]] trickery. Torn apart e.g. in "[https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/23/getting-cooked-by-hiroshima-atomic-bomb-global-warming/ Getting 'Cooked' by Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Global Warming]" on '' Watts Up With That?'', using some conversions to compare apples with apples.
* The service 1-800-Got-Junk? uses the comparison of eight standard refrigerators to describe the volume of their trucks.
* In February 2023, ''The Jerusalem Post'' [https://www.jpost.com/science/article-732223 helpfully translated] NASA's sedate description of the size and mass of a meteor which had landed in Texas into far more obvious and everyday terms:
{{quote|According to experts from NASA's Johnson Space Center, the meteor in question was just over 60 centimeters in diameter and weighed half a ton (or around 454 kilograms).
To put that in context, a baby elephant could weigh as much as 113 kilograms, according to experts from the Denver Zoo. This means that despite its diameter only being around the length of average Pembroke Welsh Corgi, the meteor still weighed as much as four baby elephants.}}
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