An example of an everyday comparisons used in popular science writing:
"An adult human is composed of about 50-70 trillion cells .That's a lot of cells to visualise, so try it this way. If each cell was a dollar bill, and we stacked 50 trillion dollar bills on top of each other, they would stretch from the Earth to the moon and halfway home again."
Nessa Carey (2015) Junk DNA. A journey through the dark matter of the genome. London: Icon Books Ltd.
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