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While taking a break from working on the GUI for my site-directed mutagenesis app, I noticed on BoingBoing a link to an article about the world's largest cylindrical aquarium. I had to wonder about that; the article says it's five stories high, and I know for a fact that the one in the restaurant at the Downtown Aquarium in Houston is a couple of stories high as well. Which was larger?
Well, the Aquarium's site says theirs holds 200,000 gallons; the AquaDom is 52 feet in depth by 36 feet in diameter. Why bust out a calculator when there's Google? Turns out that 200,000 gallons in cubic meters is about 757 m3, and 18 feet times 18 feet times 52 feet times pi comes out to about 1499 m3. Berlin has Houston beat by a factor of just under two.
Sorry, Houston. :( But don't you all feel just a little geekier now?
Edit: Okay, so there's an elevator down the centre of the AquaDom, so obviously there's some missing volume there. Using the humans in the picture for perspective, I'm going to guess the shaft is about 10' in diameter, accounting for about 115 m3, so Berlin still takes the cake.
Well, the Aquarium's site says theirs holds 200,000 gallons; the AquaDom is 52 feet in depth by 36 feet in diameter. Why bust out a calculator when there's Google? Turns out that 200,000 gallons in cubic meters is about 757 m3, and 18 feet times 18 feet times 52 feet times pi comes out to about 1499 m3. Berlin has Houston beat by a factor of just under two.
Sorry, Houston. :( But don't you all feel just a little geekier now?
Edit: Okay, so there's an elevator down the centre of the AquaDom, so obviously there's some missing volume there. Using the humans in the picture for perspective, I'm going to guess the shaft is about 10' in diameter, accounting for about 115 m3, so Berlin still takes the cake.