Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/swimming_pools/
BBC adopts El Reg units
Vulture Central to send Auntie Olympic-sized invoice
Posted in Bootnotes, 25th August 2010 14:45 GMT
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We're delighted to announce that the Beeb appears to have got with the programme and adopted official El Reg units [1].
In this report [2] on the "lake that has formed under a glacier on Mont Blanc, and threatens to flood the St Gervais valley", the Corporation quantifies the potentially-deadly body of water as apparently containing "the same amount of water as 26 Olympic swimming pools".
Well, we can add that this volume is equivalent to a breathtaking 112,984,512 Bulgarian airbags or a staggering 776,768,525 walnuts, and has the destructive potential to cover one MilliWales with water to a depth of 2.17 linguine. ®
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Thanks to Edward Wright for the tip-off.