I like the [insert city name] Polar Bears
Their mascot could do his own little dance called The Migration
To continue that reasoning in a different direction: The radius of the earth is 6.37 x 10[sup]6[/sup] m. That makes the surface area 5.09 x 10[sup]14[/sup] m[sup]2[/sup] and the volume 1.08 x 10[sup]21[/sup] m[sup]3[/sup]. Using your numbers for the surface area of Texas, I get a volume for Texas of 1.47 x 10[sup]18[/sup] m[sup]3[/sup].
Why not, “Everybody, because you can’t get minerals that deep.”?
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Using “state” in its U.S. meaning, a sovereign entity which has surrendered a portion of its sovereignty to a larger national body, however, the largest state is neither Texas nor Alaska, but Western Australia.
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I just checked to see the relative sizes:
Area of Texas - 678,354 square kilometres
Area of Western Australia - 2,529,875 square kilometres
Yeah, but Texas is measured in miles. Square miles are bigger than square kilimeters.
For the non-metrically inclined:
Area of Texas - 261,914 square miles
Area of Western Australia - 976,790 square miles
Not surprisingly, the relative sizes are still the same. Western Australia is about 3.7 times the size of Texas.
So using the figures I derived above, we have established that Western Australia is a Texas-sized version of Texas.
Ummm… whoosh?
However, the mean size of the fifty states would be somewhere between Illinois, 25th in size at 149,998 sq. km and Iowa, 26th in size at 145,743 sq. km.
Mean states, hmmm…
No wonder we have such a problem with them dang Yankees!
Didn’t all those hurricanes recently wipe out Texas?
Oh, wait. It was was Florida.
Sorry.
I was looking behind the wrong bush.
That would be the median, actually. The number Little Nemo came up with was the mean.
I couldn’t use the median. I tried finding a Texan median but they were all buried under dead armadillos.