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We design objects and products and structures and tools across scales, from the large-scale, like this robotic arm with an 80-foot diameter reach with a vehicular base that will one day soon print entire buildings, to nanoscale graphics made entirely of genetically engineered microorganisms that glow in the dark.
The diameter and radius are easy, they're just straight lines you can measure with a ruler.
Now, it's obvious that a circle's circumference would get smaller or larger along with its diameter, but the relationship goes further than that.
In fact, the ratio between the two, the circumference divided by the diameter, will always be the same number, no matter how big or small the circle gets.
You see, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is what's known as an irrational number, one that can never be expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers.
This little metal ball, smaller than two feet in diameter, launched a space race between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. that would last for eighteen years and change the world as we know it.
Earth's diameter is about 400 kilometers larger, but essentially the same size.
In 2007, I created "Lotus," a seven-and-a-half-foot diameter, 600-pound glass depiction of a lotus blossom.
You get some sense of the size: 44 meters wide, 22 meters in diameter, 7,000 tons.
Just for comparison's sake, the diameter of an average strand of hair is about 100 microns.
So how quickly you react to something depends on the diameter of a nerve.
And of course, if you have nerves that are external or prosthetic, say with light or liquid metal, then you can increase that diameter and you could even increase it theoretically to the point where, as long as you could see the muzzle flash, you could step out of the way of a bullet.
They measure just 30 to 150 nanometers in diameter.
So the first thing to do is to cut the tunnel diameter by a factor of two or more.
So a single road lane tunnel according to regulations has to be 26 feet, maybe 28 feet in diameter to allow for crashes and emergency vehicles and sufficient ventilation for combustion engine cars.
But if you shrink that diameter to what we're attempting, which is 12 feet, which is plenty to get an electric skate through, you drop the diameter by a factor of two and the cross-sectional area by a factor of four, and the tunneling cost scales with the cross-sectional area.
Even a cancer as small as one centimeter in diameter harbors over a hundred million different cells.
For example, the distance between the Earth and the Sun changed by one atomic diameter.
And the diameter of each dot corresponds to the length of the sentence inside.
10 millimeters in diameter, it gives us the highest resolution image of the larynx we can get.
The design called for geosynchronous orbit 25,000 miles up, 100-meter diameter lens.
We're going to show you what the diameter at breast height of a big Redwood is.
And maybe about here, about 30 feet, is the diameter of a big Redwood.
It was a 200-foot diameter geodesic sphere to be suspended over the East River in New York City, in full view of the United Nations.
So as you can see here, this is a, eleven-inch diameter circuit board.
It's amazingly thin, compared to the size of the earth and the cosmos it shields us from, far thinner than the skin of an apple compared to its diameter.
This may be hard to see, but they're a couple meters in diameter.
It will alter my behavior without my knowledge, and it can increase the diameter of my pupils if I experience something I really like.
Now, I have very thin hair, so my hair is approximately 40,000 nanometers in diameter.
But this the current version of it, is a flying airship that is about 35 meters in diameter, about 110 feet in diameter.
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