nit picking with the best; & other irrelevance

Philip Stott: It's 88.

If we are going to have pointless and excessive exaggeration (that's probably redundant isn't it - I don't suppose insufficient exaggeration is very likely), I for one would prefer a few more 'low tech' comparisons - perhaps some analogy involving football fields, or the head of a pin. Or ball bearings in a swimming pool, that's always good. Something to allow me some understanding of how a factor of 88 can be a thousand times worse. Or just a thousand times anything really. A thousand times bigger than .088 I suppose....

I'm probably just not very sharp.