50 It’s not so big, after all.

50 millimeters =

1/36,576th of the depth of the deepest portion of the Grand Canyon

(1,828,800 millimeters)

50 kilometers per hour =

1/552th of the velocity of the International Space Station

(27,600 kilometers per hour)

50 hairs =

1/2,000th of the number of hairs found on an average human head

(100,000 hairs)

50 square miles =

1/108,000th of the area covered by the Antarctic Ice Sheet

(5,400,000 square miles)

50 adobe bricks =

1/2,600,000th of the number used to construct the Huaca del Sol

(130,000,000 adobe bricks)

50 centimeters =

1/5,800,000th of the thickness of the Earth’s mantle

(290,000,000 centimeters)

50 pints =

1/60,000th of the number of pints brewed each day at the St. James’s Gate Brewery

(3,000,000 pints)

50 kilometers =

1/798,000,000,000th of the distance to Proxima Centauri (39,900,000,000,000 kilometers)

50 days =

1/36,960th of the age of the oldest Great Basin Bristlecone Pine

(1,847,995 days)

50 tons =

1/17,890th of the original weight of the Golden Gate Bridge

(894,500 tons)

50 eggs =

1/1,563,328,200th of the number of eggs consumed in the US in 2012

(78,166,410,000 eggs)

50 cubic feet of water =

1/3,473,871,667,200th of the volume of Lake Michigan

(173,693,583,360,000 cubic feet of water)

50 yards =

1/28,498th of the number of yards of bookshelves at the Library of Congress

(1,474,880 yards)

50 pounds-force =

1/30,440th of the amount of thrust generated by a Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine

(1,522,000 pounds-force)

50 individuals =

1/125,052th

of the number of individuals without health insurance in Texas (6,252,600 individuals)

50 meters =

1/2,796,440th of the diameter of Jupiter

(139,822,000 meters)

50 liters =

1/687,344th of the amount of wine consumed globally in 2011

(24,367,197 liters)

50 hours =

1/31,886th of the estimated age of Jonathan, a Seychelles Giant Tortoise

(1,594,320 hours)

50 vehicle miles =

1/5,272,000,000th of the vehicle miles driven in the US in July, 2013

(263,600,000,000 vehicle miles)

50 inches =

1/8,688th of the depth of Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the ocean

(434,400 inches)

50 windows =

1/487th of the number of windows on the Burj Khalifa

(24,348 windows)

50 hectares =

1/679,872th of the land comprising the US National Park System

(33,993,594 hectares)

50 kilograms =

1/8,960th of the maximum takeoff weight for a Boeing 747-8F

(448,000 kilograms)

50 bacteria =

1/2,000,000,000,000th of the number of bacteria found in an average human body

(100,000,000,000,000 bacteria)

50 stars =

1/60,000,000,000th of the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

(300,000,000,000 stars)

50 seconds =

1/1,080th of the length of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen

(54,000 seconds)

50 acre-feet =

1/578,900th of the volume of Lake Mead

(28,945,000 acre-feet)

50 frames =

1/3,427th of the number of frames in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane

(171,360 frames)

50 weeks =

1/5,215th of the total time elapsed since construction commenced at Stonehenge

(260,728 weeks)

50 years =

1/276,000,000th of the estimated age of the Universe

(13,800,000,000 years)

50 microns =

1/15,260th of the circumference of a size 7 basketball

(762,000 microns)

50 entries =

1/4,563th of the number of entries in the 2nd Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary

(228,132 entries)

50 specimens =

1/2,520,000th of the number collected by the National Museum of Natural History

(126,000,000 specimens)

50 words =

1/25,341th of the total word count for Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu

(1,267,069 words)

50 LEGO bricks =

1/914,000,000th of the number produced in 2012 (45,700,000,000 LEGO bricks)

50 yuan =

1/200,000,000th of the construction cost of the Shanghai Maglev Train

(10,000,000,000 yuan)

50 gallons =

1/340,000,000,000th of the amount of water contained in Chesapeake Bay

(17,000,000,000,000 gallons)

50 pounds =

1/382,000th of the weight of the Space Needle

(19,100,000 pounds)

50 iPhones =

1/300,000th of the number of iPhones sold by Apple in 2013

(150,000,000 iPhones)

50 barrels =

1/177,800th of the amount of petroleum products consumed daily in the US

(8,890,000 barrels)

50 feet =

1/422,400th of the length of the Amazon River

(21,120,000 feet)

50 babies =

1/79,988th of the number born in the US in 2010

(3,999,386 babies)

50 base pairs =

1/60,000,000th of the complete human genome

(3,000,000,000 base pairs)

50 light years =

1/200,000,000th of the distance to supernova SN UDS10Wil

(10,000,000,000 light years)

50 cups of tea =

1/1,204,000,000th of the number consumed annually in the UK

(60,200,000,000 cups of tea)

50 minutes =

1/253,507,418th of the half-life of Plutonium-239

(12,675,370,900 minutes)

50 rods =

1/67,245th of the distance between London and Melbourne

(3,362,240 rods)

50 dollars =

1/350,428,356,601th of the amount of the current US public debt

(17,521,417,830,074 dollars)

50 miles per hour =

1/781th of the current speed of Voyager 1

(39,057 miles per hour)

50 patents =

1/174,868th of the number issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office through 2011

(8,743,423 patents)

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Collected, Calculated, and Curated by Jeff Stvan in Honor of Max Sims’ 50th Birthday