Real Americans measure their bullets with caliber.
Detective Callahan laughs at your tiny 9mm
The Metric System
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Real Americans measure their bullets with caliber.
Detective Callahan laughs at your tiny 9mm
sold in imperial.........er, so I've told
Things I learned today.
Libya and Myanmar got nukes and have been to the moon.
Libya and Myanmar got nukes and have been to the moon.
Kind of boggles the mind That we're so stuck in the past. As a kid in grade school in the 60s, we were told that some day "soon" we would go metric.
Reding, like maff, is hard.
And I think you meant alot.
Slash McCoy
I freehand dog rockets
Normal measurements are more real, somehow. A foot... how to estimate it? With your foot, maybe? A barrel is about how much... a barrwlful? Yer in the ballpark. A fathom of rope? Stretch out your arms. Anybody too stupid to divide by 12 or 16 or 64 has no business messing about with numbers and measuring devices, anyway. Horsepower, miles, fifths, inches, firkins, chains, rods, pecks and hogsheads. They simply rock. Metric is simply not manly.
Metric is what you get when you have scientists and academics devise a system. Imperial is what you get when you have ordinary people try to measure ordinary things. Sometimes, metric makes as much 'sense' as Imperial ... kilometres and kilometres per hour vs. miles and miles per hour? Tomayto tomahto. Temperature ditto ... metric may have the edge there ... water freezes at zero, duh! ...
Other times you see how metric is lacking when they don't have a handy unit of measure that suits daily use. Metric doesn't have a "foot". It doesn't have an "inch". The inch is about the width of your thumb. The foot is about the distance from your elbow to your wrist. Metric works better for complex calculations and scientific uses; Imperial is better for times when close enough is good enough.
On the whole ... meh.
Metric got funk
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I'm dancing.
Slash McCoy
I freehand dog rockets
Can't use metric for navigating.
How many killometers is a minute of latitude, or a minute of longitude at the equator?
How many nautical miles?
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1,215 mermaids placed end to end.
The metric system is similar to computers and the internet. They are both fads that are going to disappear soon.
I worked in mechanical design back when the government "changed over". The engineer would create his design, in inches. He would then convert his sketches to metric, with tolerances such as plus or minus 0.127. The draftsmen would follow protocol and round them to two places. The blueprint would go to the machinist, who would get out his calculator and red pencil and proceed to convert everything back to the inches that his machinery and available stock used.
Even if there wasn't a calculational error, the parts often wouldn't fit due to the rounding off of the tolerances and dimensions. The end result was more governmental waste of the taxpayer's money.
Even if there wasn't a calculational error, the parts often wouldn't fit due to the rounding off of the tolerances and dimensions. The end result was more governmental waste of the taxpayer's money.
Metric is in multiples of 10. Big deal. Like humans only think in tens. How unnatural does it seem that we don't have 10 months in the year, each with ten weeks of ten days each, as well as 10 hours in a day each consisting of 100 minutes? I never hear people complain about the calendar and the clock, so why pretend we need metric weights and measures?
There's no reason we can't go into a bakery and order 10 rolls or 10 donuts. But we don't think in tens when it comes to donuts & rolls. We think in dozens. And half-dozens. Even a baker's dozen is more natural-sounding than asking for 10 rolls.
There's no reason we can't go into a bakery and order 10 rolls or 10 donuts. But we don't think in tens when it comes to donuts & rolls. We think in dozens. And half-dozens. Even a baker's dozen is more natural-sounding than asking for 10 rolls.
pi = 3 = r delicious
problem solved... the dawning of aquarius
oooohhhhmmmm.............
problem solved... the dawning of aquarius
oooohhhhmmmm.............
If we are looking for a "reasonable" number system then throw away decimal. Move the world to octal.
The "octades" (decades) will work the same way. Multiply by eight just add a zero. Conversion between binary becomes trivial.
And anybody who thanks these newfanfled computers with that binary rot are a passing fad will get left behind anyway.
It was ever thus.
The "octades" (decades) will work the same way. Multiply by eight just add a zero. Conversion between binary becomes trivial.
And anybody who thanks these newfanfled computers with that binary rot are a passing fad will get left behind anyway.
It was ever thus.
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