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And yet I still have no idea how big the squid is. Buses range in size dramatically.
So do large pizzas.
How much is that in football fields?
About a 200th of a football field.
No they don't? And we can see the proportions.
A "school bus" can be a local mini that's like 8-10?m long, or a medium like 15-metre one. A "school bus" (as it would be near me) can also be an articulated main route bus that has three high schools and a major university on both ends of the corridor, at like 30 metres long.
Ditto pizzas. A "large" is such an arbitrary measurement.
as for "seeing" the proportions... if you gave me that picture and told me it was shrimp-sized (also a bit ambiguous), I couldn't question it. At best, the "pizza" and "bus" provide order of magnitude estimates.
It says bus-sized, and it's long. That makes it a standard bus, not a short bus. And we can assume it's not a city bus, because it says school bus. It's pretty clear what the approximate size is.