A new standard is set

I once had a friend who, writing a press release, described a new transistor as “about the size of a small dot.” That was a long time ago—today, transistors that size are laughably large. But nowhere near as large as this.

Here’s the Associated Press describing a 500,000-pound rock in Arizona as "weighing more than many jumbo jets.” My admiration is profound.

Massive rock threatening to crash into base of Arizona dam