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‘H₂O, YOU KNOW’ [OC] (feddit.nl)

submitted 3 months ago by CustardFist@feddit.nl to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] CustardFist@feddit.nl 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Would you believe it stands for acre-foot? ☝️🤓

The acre-foot is a non-SI unit of volume equal to about 1,233 m3 commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, sewer flow capacity, irrigation water,[1] and river flows.

Haha. No, I looked this up just 2 minutes ago, but what a coincidence, huh? 🤣

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Cool! Check this out...

The following is a list of the first two rivers by outflow and the Mississippi in acre-foot:

River	Outflow (ac-ft/s)
Amazon	181.6
Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna	35.6
Mississippi	17.3

Crazy that the top is over 5 times more than the next one 😮. The largest outflow in North America and the one I've seen in person is the Mississippi, which is only 9.5% the outflow of the Amazon. The Amazon is over 10 times more than the Mississippi, which I thought was humongous in person 😮.

On to sewers, which is what one of the uses for the acre-foot according to your quote. The following is a list wastewater generated by location:

Location	Generation (ac-ft/s)
Asia	5,073.6
NA & Europe	2,124.6
All 3 Continents	7,198.2

So the outflow of the Mississippi alone is greater than twice the wastewater of Asia, North America, and Europe combined 😮!

My math may need to be checked 😬

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

non-SI unit

astrophysics

Well no, I don't think I would believe that.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's so unbelievable. The acre is much too large a unit to fit into the astrophysical canon.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Also, Autofocus… as in “This camera has fast AF AF!”

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It's a capitalization issue caused by its COBOL processing code.

The correct is atto-Farraday.