Landmark Numbers and Bad Number Analogies

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Watch Tim Harford talk about the Stork-Baby correlation on Numberphile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-d1ApBTFw

Here is the current Landmark Number recommended toolkit (yours may differ).
- population of the country you live in
- 'people days' per year in your countries of choice
- GDP or total government budget
- heigh of some buildings you have seen
- a human lifetime is around 30,000 days
- million/billion/trillion seconds

More about Tim Harford:
http://timharford.com/

Huge thanks to The Vintage Red Bus Company for lending us one of their fantastic buses.
https://thevintageredbuscompany.co.uk/

"Asteroid the size of a bus hurtles past Earth"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/asteroid-the-size-of-a-bus-hurtles-past-earth-9323762.html

CORRECTIONS:
- We were in front of a long version of the original Routemaster bus which I believe was technically 29.91 feet, but we were told 30 feet and that is an easier unit of measurement.
- Let me know if you spot any mistakes!

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