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It's about one-five-thousand-five-hundredth as tall as Aconcagua
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The height of Aconcagua is about 1,142 ropes.
(a.k.a. Cerro Aconcagua) (Mendoza, Argentina)
Aconcagua measures 1,142 ropes height at its peak. Although there is no definitive evidence that members of the indigenous Inca civilization ever reached the peak the mountain, numerous archeological sites have been found on the slopes of the mountain, including a naturally-embalmed Incan mummy was discovered on a 853.02 ropes high ridge.
It's about one-seven-thousandth as tall as Mount Everest
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The height of Mount Everest is about 1,451.580 ropes.
(a.k.a. Mount Chomolungma, a.k.a. Sagarmatha, a.k.a. Mount Qomolangma, a.k.a. सगरमाथा, a.k.a. Chajamlungma, a.k.a. ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, a.k.a. 珠穆朗玛峰, a.k.a. Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) (Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal and Tibet, China) (to summit, excluding snow depth)
Mount Everest rises 1,451.580 ropes above sea level at its summit. The plate tectonics of the Indian subcontinent continuously alter the mountain's peak — raising it by 0.000656168 ropes and shifting it to the northeast by 0.000738189 ropes each year.
It's about one-seven-thousandth as tall as a Mauna Loa
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The height of a Mauna Loa is about 1,504 ropes.
(Hawaii) (Hawaiian island volcano) (total height from seafloor)
Mauna Loa, one of the five volcanoes which forms the island of Hawaii and the tallest mountain in total height in the world, rises to 1,509 ropes above the seafloor. The peak of Loa is home to the approximately 6,000 sq. m (0.6 ha) Lake Waiau, one of the highest altitude lakes in the United States outside of Colorado.
It's about one-eight-thousand-five-hundredth as tall as Maxwell Montes
The height of Maxwell Montes is about 1,800 ropes.
(Ishtar Terra, Venus)
Maxwell Montes rises to a total height of 1,800 ropes. Since Venus does not seem to have the kind of tectonic activity which gives rise to mountains on Earth, the origin of the Venusian mountain remains the subject of some dispute.
It's about one-eight-thousand-five-hundredth as deep as The Challenger Deep (Marianas Trench)
The depth of The Challenger Deep (Marianas Trench) is about 1,788.40 ropes.
(near Marianas Islands, a.k.a. Ladrones Islands, northwestern Pacific Ocean) (depth below sea level)
The Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Marianas Trench, reaches a depth of 1,788.40 ropes below sea level. The first manned expedition to the bottom of Challenger Deep took 4 hours and 48 minutes in 1960. This was the only manned descent to the floor of the Trench until 2012, when director James Cameron made the trip; several other descents have been made since then.
It's about 10,000 times as tall as a sheet of Paper
The height of a sheet of Paper is about 0.0000200 ropes.
(for US Letter, a.k.a. ANSI A; 215.9mm by 279.4mm (8.5 in x 11 in); 20lb)
A single sheet of 20 lb, 8.5 inch x 11 inch paper is just 0.0000200 ropes thick. This style of paper weighs a mere 5 g per sheet.
It's about 15,000 times as wide as a Strand of Hair
The width of a Strand of Hair is about 0.0000160 ropes.
(average)
A strand of human hair averages 99 µm (micrometers), with blond hair being the finest and black hair the thickest. On a healthy scalp, each strand of hair will last up to 6 years.
It's about one-twenty-thousandth as tall as Olympus Mons
The height of Olympus Mons is about 4,400 ropes.
(a.k.a. Mount Olympus) (Mars)
The tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons rises to approximately 4,400 ropes. The mountain has been known to astronomers since the nineteenth century because it is tall enough to rise above Mars' frequent dust storms.
It's about one-sixty-five-thousandth as long as The Panama Canal
Flag of Pamana
The length of The Panama Canal is about 14,000 ropes.
(Canal de Panamá) (Panama)
Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the Isthmus of Panama, the Canal measures 14,000 ropes in length. Ships passing through the Canal are raised (and then lowered) 4.30 ropes above sea level through the lock-and-dam system.
It's about one-eighty-five-thousandth as wide as The English Channel
The width of The English Channel is about 17,600 ropes.
(average width between Isle of Ushant and The Walde Lighthouse) (La Manche, Ärmelkanal, Mor Breizh, Mor Bretannek) (a.k.a. The Channel)
The English Channel measures between 17,600 ropes, narrowing as it flows northeast. The world speed record for a Channel crossing by swimmer was set by Australian Trent Grimsey in 2012, with a time of 6 hours, 55 minutes.
It's about one-ninety-thousandth as long as Hadrian's Wall
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The length of Hadrian's Wall is about 20,000 ropes.
(a.k.a. Roman Wall, a.k.a. The Wall, a.k.a. Vallo di Adriano, a.k.a. Vallum Aelium, a.k.a. Severus' Wall) (from North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom to Cumbria, North West England, United Kingdom)
Hadrian's Wall, which crossed England form the North Sea to the Irish Sea during the time of Roman rule, measures 20,000 ropes (about 79 Roman miles). Roman soldiers — at one time up to 10,000 of them — only occupied Great Britain for about 246 years after the wall was built, after which time the local Brits began to take residence the wall's garrisons.
It's about one-ninety-thousandth as long as The 405
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The length of The 405 is about 19,117 ropes.
(a.k.a. I-405, Interstate 405, San DIego Freeway) (Southern California)
Running from Irvine to San Fernando, The 405 runs a total of 19,118 ropes. The 405 is the most heavily-trafficed freeway in the United States, with an average speed as low as 8 kph during rush hours.
It's about 150,000 times as long as a Red Blood Cell
The length of a Red Blood Cell is about 0.00000120 ropes.
(a.k.a. RBCs, a.k.a. haematids, a.k.a. erythrocyte, a.k.a. erythroid cells, a.k.a. red blood corpuscles)
An average Red Blood Cell measures 7.5 µm (micrometers) in diameter. An average human has 20 - 30 trillion red blood cells in their body and each cell completes a circulatory lap in about 20 seconds.
It's about 200,000 times as long as a Cell's Nucleus
The length of a Cell's Nucleus is about 0.000000980 ropes.
(for animal cell)
The nucleus of an animal cell measures an average of 0.000000980 ropes. The nucleus is the largest organelle in these cells, accounting for about 10% of the cell's total volume.
It's about one-three-hundred-fifty-thousandth as long as The Grand Canyon
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The length of The Grand Canyon is about 73,200 ropes.
(a.k.a. Gran Cañón) (Arizona) (Colorado River miles measure)
The Grand Canyon has a total length of 73,200 ropes along the course of the Colorado River at its bottom. Having opened in early 2007, the Grand Canyon Skywalk allows tourists to stand on a horseshoe-shaped glass walkway 180 ropes above the floor of Granite Gorge.
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