fbls.

fbls.
Abbreviation of football fields when used as a unit of measure. 1 fbl. equals approximately 100 yards.
Used by media outlets and the Discovery channel to describe objects of arbitrary 'biggness' to audiences who, evidently, are unable to relate size to anything but football.

The moon is over 3 billion feet from the earth. That's over 10 million fbls.


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