Is That A Big Number?

If Distance between bases of a baseball diamond (27.43 m) was a standard unit ...

Length of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race (6.8 km)...more would be 250 x Distance between bases of a baseball diamond

Length of the Las Vegas Strip (6.8 km)...more would be 250 x Distance between bases of a baseball diamond

Length of the Starship `Discovery` in the Star Trek series of that name (683 m)...more would be 25 x Distance between bases of a baseball diamond

Length of the Titanic (269 m)...more would be 10 x Distance between bases of a baseball diamond

Length of an American Football field (110 m)...more would be 4 x Distance between bases of a baseball diamond

Longest flight of a paper airplane (69.1 m)...more would be 2.5 x Distance between bases of a baseball diamond

Distance a kangaroo can jump (13.5 m)...more would be 1/2 of Distance between bases of a baseball diamond

Penalty distance in (soccer) football (10.97 m)...more would be 2/5 of Distance between bases of a baseball diamond

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