Yesterday, I was listening to a news story on the 200,000 gallons a day of oil spilling out into the Gulf of Mexico, and tried to convert that into a number I could wrap my head around.

Long story short, it prompted my first post at Rough Equivalents in nearly two years. I won't make you all click over for the detailed explanation. 200,000 gallons of oil will create a millimeter-thick oil slick the size of approximately 170 football fields.

For more details on the math behind that and numbers on how deep the oil would be if it was limited to the area of a single football field, visit "Football Fields of Spilled Oil" over at Rough Equivalents.

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