#imperialunits — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #imperialunits, aggregated by home.social.
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What if we called #imperialUnits ‚#kingsUnits instead? Would #Americans be more willing to switch to metric?
I forgot … many of them try to get a king right now.
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Nearly a furlong, which - of course - is 110 fathoms. #imperialunits #xkcd
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Nearly a furlong, which - of course - is 110 fathoms. #imperialunits #xkcd
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I'm sorry, but I CAN'T COUNT unless your numbers are in UNINTUITIVE MULTIPLES [eagle screech]
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I'm sorry, but I CAN'T COUNT unless your numbers are in UNINTUITIVE MULTIPLES [eagle screech]
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Liebes #Motorola Moto Wetter-Widget, warum zum Geier hast Du das Gefühl, Du müsstest mir die Schneehöhe in Zoll angeben?!? Bei den restlichen Werten schaffst Du's ja auch, moderne Einheiten zu verwenden. Und eigentlich weisst Du das auch.
#Android #MetricUnits #ImperialUnits #HinterwälderEinheiten #Inch
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Liebes #Motorola Moto Wetter-Widget, warum zum Geier hast Du das Gefühl, Du müsstest mir die Schneehöhe in Zoll angeben?!? Bei den restlichen Werten schaffst Du's ja auch, moderne Einheiten zu verwenden. Und eigentlich weisst Du das auch.
#Android #MetricUnits #ImperialUnits #HinterwälderEinheiten #Inch
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Another funny contribution by #SMBC which adds yet another angle to the #imperialunits situation: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/measurement
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Another funny contribution by #SMBC which adds yet another angle to the #imperialunits situation: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/measurement
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7 years ago, I wrote a blog entry about more imperial units, where I suggest new imperial units that convert somehow to metric.
https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/30025
Of course, XKCD managed to present a much more compact formula that binds imperial miles to nautical miles…
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7 years ago, I wrote a blog entry about more imperial units, where I suggest new imperial units that convert somehow to metric.
https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/30025
Of course, XKCD managed to present a much more compact formula that binds imperial miles to nautical miles…
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"A Guide to Imperial Measurements with Matt Parker"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7x-RGfd0Yk -
Could we redefine the inch so that that 1 inch is 256 millimetre? At least this way, 10 inches = 0x100 millimetres…
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Could we redefine the inch so that that 1 inch is 256 millimetre? At least this way, 10 inches = 0x100 millimetres…
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I was Today Years Old when I realized that there are 4 quarts in a gallon because a quart is … one quart-er of a gallon. ☹️
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I was Today Years Old when I realized that there are 4 quarts in a gallon because a quart is … one quart-er of a gallon. ☹️
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I just found out that 12 poppyseeds are 1 inch, and 4 inches are 1 hand (1/3 foot). This is going to make conversions to #ImperialUnits a lot easier (for me)
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I just found out that 12 poppyseeds are 1 inch, and 4 inches are 1 hand (1/3 foot). This is going to make conversions to #ImperialUnits a lot easier (for me)
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See? #imperialunits are good for _something_
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/unit -
See? #imperialunits are good for _something_
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/unit -
When my son was much smaller, he'd measure things in "feet", but one foot was the thickness of his tiny feet!
#Imperialunits #metricsystem -
When my son was much smaller, he'd measure things in "feet", but one foot was the thickness of his tiny feet!
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Evan Edinger on the results of that ridiculous survey of the British public on whether the UK should go back to using imperial units to measure things
https://youtu.be/uBlWKC6swss
#metric #ImperialUnits #JacobReesMogg #Brexit -
If American units of measurement are not confusing enough for you, how about we use solid units for a liquid and liquid units for a ~solid. 😎
(printed on a Stringles wrapper)
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If American units of measurement are not confusing enough for you, how about we use solid units for a liquid and liquid units for a ~solid. 😎
(printed on a Stringles wrapper)
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1l of (4°C) water weighs 1kg.
1kg (of anything) is 1000g.
1g of water is 1cm³.
Stack 1000 1cm³ blocks to get a 10m high column.
This column exerts 100kPa of pressure on its base.
To heat it by 1°C requires 1kcal.
And 1N would accelerate it by 1m/s every second.I had to google how many inches are in 7 feet.
And I think that's stupid.Edit: Dear Americans; I require 7 feet in fathoms.
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1l of (4°C) water weighs 1kg.
1kg (of anything) is 1000g.
1g of water is 1cm³.
Stack 1000 1cm³ blocks to get a 10m high column.
This column exerts 100kPa of pressure on its base.
To heat it by 1°C requires 1kcal.
And 1N would accelerate it by 1m/s every second.I had to google how many inches are in 7 feet.
And I think that's stupid.Edit: Dear Americans; I require 7 feet in fathoms.
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@Jdreben #BlueSky is to #ActivityPub like #MSFTOOXML is to #OpenDocumentFormat. It's too late and it's unnecessary. Due to the underlying profit motive, it's also probably cumbersome. In other words, it's like a massive, self-interested world power introducing #ImperialUnits for measurement in a world where the #MetricSystem is already well entrenched with a claim that "diversity in standards" is useful.
Which, of course, is one of the reasons the rest of us can't have nice things.
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@Jdreben #BlueSky is to #ActivityPub like #MSFTOOXML is to #OpenDocumentFormat. It's too late and it's unnecessary. Due to the underlying profit motive, it's also probably cumbersome. In other words, it's like a massive, self-interested world power introducing #ImperialUnits for measurement in a world where the #MetricSystem is already well entrenched with a claim that "diversity in standards" is useful.
Which, of course, is one of the reasons the rest of us can't have nice things.
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Heard on my flight in the US today … as mom with her 9 year old daughter boards, kid points to the information on the door of the plane … “Mom! Did you see that. It’s the Metric System! They measure distance in kilometers!” Not sure to be entirely geeking out about a 9-year old noticing units , laughing or crying at the state of reluctance to embrace the rest of the world #MetricSystem #ImperialUnits
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Just What On Earth Is A Therm? - With the news here in Europe full of the effect of the war in Ukraine on gas suppl... - https://hackaday.com/2022/04/07/just-what-on-earth-is-a-therm/ #customaryunits #currentevents #imperialunits #featured #interest #rants #therm #units #gas
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I'm watching the #series #Away on #Netflix, and it kinda bugs me that these #astronauts use #imperialUnits such as 'feet', rather than (centi)metres.
I'm having a hard time imagining that #NASA astronauts would use anything but #metric, especially when working with #Russian and #Chinese space agencies. -
TIL: the US uses two types of feet (unit of measurement). :-) One is the original U.S. survey foot from 1893. The second is the international foot from 1959, which is slightly shorter.
That causes all sorts of survey measurement problems. But now they'll going to standardise to one foot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/science/foot-surveying-metrology-dennis.html
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@uint8_t That equates to roughly 0.0308567758 meters which is slightly more than three barleycorns.
