(this is a true overheard and I honestly have no idea if a Best Buy is an acre or not)
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OH "The way I remember how big an acre is, is that's about the footprint of a Best Buy*" Ah yes, the ancient unit defined by how much area a person can shop in 1 day.
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I’ve heard an acre compared to the size of a football field but that’s just comparing two Freedom Units™ that don’t work outside the US
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football field ~= soccer field = "football" field outside of US. So it works
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US soccer fields are wider than US football fields (and 100m long instead of 100 yards), but they're in the same ballpark.
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Ballpark is another America specific idiom
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Wow this is actually really helpful
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same, I grew up in farming country but still had no good concept of it
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It yields enough grain for 10 Auntie Anne's Pretzels.
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So that makes the average home in silicon valley about 1 geek squad?
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Sounds about right. 40 years ago a typical large US grocery store was about 1 acre (~40k sq ft.) Bigger ones now get to ~1.5 acres.
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[Updated version:] ...about the footprint of an Amazon warehouse assigned to one medium-sized drone to handle circa 2017
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How many Amazon shopping lists is that?
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yeah, but like a Boston Best Buy or an LA Best Buy cuz....
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Interestingly, the World Trade Center towers each had a footprint of 208 feet square, or almost exactly one acre.
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The last Best Buy I visited was the first floor of the John Hancock Center in Chicago...
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