While I’m waiting for Jackall’s next wall of text, I thought I would add some geographical statistics to demonstrate just how small Texas is on a global scale, but before I do that, I would like to reiterate what I said earlier, which is that to the best of my knowledge, I have not posted any defamatory remarks concerning Texas in this or any other thread.
Some people seem to think that “greatness” equates to “size”, but size is relative and provides no indication as to what may be found within. It is true that Texas is the largest of the 48 contiguous states, and by a margin of more than 100,000 square miles, but on a global scale, it almost pales into insignificance. I have made my own calculations to ascertain the proportions of magnitude of Texas as compared with other geographical entities. I’ll begin with the surface area of the world. To calculate this, I used the formula
4 pi R squared, where R is the radius of the earth and pi is a special mathematical constant defining the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, and not a dessert to be enjoyed after a 72oz steak! I used the Windows calculator definition of pi. Using data derived from Wikipedia, I determined that the earth has a radius of 3963.205 miles. The result yielded by this calculation giving the earth’s surface area was 197,379,906 – to the nearest square mile. Turning to the Times atlas of the world, the land area of the state of Texas is given as 268,601 square miles. Dividing one by the other, we see that the rest of the world is about 734 times the size of Texas. By the same process, it can be seen that Texas occupies a land area equivalent to 0.136% of the earth, in other words a little over one tenth of one percent.
Thus it can be seen that Texas is “huge” compared to the other 48 contiguous states, but a tiny speck on the earth’s surface. It follows that the earth is 734 times as huge, but when compared with planet Jupiter, it is tiny. According to Wikipedia, 1321 earths would fit inside Jupiter! Keyword: Proportion.
Originally posted by Curval
lol Jackal has a fan club.
Kewl? It is absolute nonesense.
Yes of course it’s nonsense, but what I have found, quite consistently as it turns out, is that whenever someone blows his trumpet about the size of a piece of real estate to which he feels some degree of emotional attachment, you will find that the enthusiasm of such trumpet blowing is inversely proportional to his knowledge of geography external to the piece of real estate being trumpeted as “huge”. In my view, jackall provides a classic example, vindicating my theory perfectly. Curval, you live on a small island and are therefore accustomed to being on the "outside looking in" so to speak, so I know you'll have no difficulty relating to my theory.
As I have been at pains to point out throughout this thread, Texas may be large in a relative sense, but appears small when viewed on a global scale…
…Or, to use jackall’s parlance: Like I said, it ain’t that grand.
