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Just googled the subject, and found this one pretty funny...
(From a metric point of view of course, as i am certain there´s plenty who finds it very easy, when raised with the imperial system.)
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I'll have to go along with that one Jan. But then I did start off with Metric being hands down the best for scientific endeavors!
But to answer the question in a more specific manner ... it takes 1 BTU (British Thermal Unit) of heat to raise one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit at STP. -
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Well, I’m confused
Well okay then Nick .... let me help you with this.
Tell me which is heavier .... a pound of Gold or a pound of Lead?
A pound of feathers
Well okay, you're correct ..... see how easy that was!?!?
Now let's follow that up with the question about which is heavier ...... an ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers, as you seem to prefer? -
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Bonjour,
Eternal confusion between weight and mass
As Frenchie, I don't find anything simpler that the MKSA measures and suffer when I watch videos evoking pounds, eight sixteen of an inch and x miles per gallon, question of educatin
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Bonjour,
Eternal confusion between weight and mass
As Frenchie, I don't find anything simpler that the MKSA measures and suffer when I watch videos evoking pounds, eight sixteen of an inch and x miles per gallon, question of educatin
I can divide pounds by ten, one hundred or one thousand just as easily as I can kilograms. But depending on final use there are far more options than just grams, as there are ounces, grains, pennyweights, drams, scruples, and a host of others that relate to specific systems within the whole.
Eight sixteenths of an inch = half an inch but there is seven and nine sixteenths available on either side as well .... ;c)
Miles per gallon is no more or less convenient than kilometers per liter.
Once again I will say that metric is the best way to go, by far, in virtually any science related measurement, and certainly some engineering venues as well. However, other systems do provide other useful perspectives, if you know how to properly utilize them!
Can you tell me why is it that you don't use a metric clock then? -
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Seriously poor mileage ........ but I do like the tongue in cheek reference, or should that be "irreverence"!?!? -
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Daniel can you please expand on the Helenic beauty scale.....
Can you possibly explain the difference between the looks of a woman of 587 mh vs a woman of 588 mh (millihelens) ??
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"Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?"
I didn't know they had strip joints in Troy.... -
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Daniel can you please expand on the Helenic beauty scale.....
Can you possibly explain the difference between the looks of a woman of 587 mh vs a woman of 588 mh (millihelens) ??
A slight edge .... that is all, and that only in the eye of the beholder!
Simply a much finer scale Gil, clearly these would be women who are definitely better than a five, but not quite a six, as scored on the old BD scale. It is exactly the same amount of subjectively perceived difference as is the objective measurement difference found between .587" & .588" in measuring the diameter of a part. It is slight, but there is a difference.
Point is that it is just a scale of reference, for personal recordation of a subjective judgement. It could be as subtle as a slightly less or more attractive earlobe, or the more or less favorable position or a mole or beauty mark, the pout of lips, the tint of hair, the shade of eye, the arc of eyebrow or the shape of nose. Perhaps just a slight variance in the glow of skin could make that little difference.
What this scale can do is allow for a better precision on the comparison of individual judgments, such that if you have half a dozen guys out ogling the fairer specimens of the species, adding up their combined scores and dividing by the number of scores submitted will give you a fairly precise rating of that particular subject, at that time on that day as seen by those "judges". Of course if you add much alcohol into the mix, the fineness of the scale is immediately lost, and you may as well revert back to the old BD scale at that point .... as case in point, a subject that is rated as "a 2 at 10:00 pm, may yet be seen as a 10 at 2:00 am", if you get my drift. No need for a finer scale in such a debauched instance!
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"Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?"
I didn't know they had strip joints in Troy....
I'd be very surprised if they didn't ... but I do believe the reference is to towers without roofs on them, just as a guess.
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...The school milk suppliers also at some point renamed the 1/2 pint milk carton as 256 ml...
Well, that just stupid...
Over here, there´s 250ml in that carton, and its called a quart...not that much harder to pronounce, than a ½ pint
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Hi Jan, would I be correct thinking your quart means a quarter litre?
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My grandpa used to talk rods and chains out doing field work, didn’t have a clue what he was talking about
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My grandpa used to talk rods and chains out doing field work, didn’t have a clue what he was talking about
Rods and Chains were still used in referencing old surveys .... until satellites and GPS took all the fun out of it anyway! -
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Hi,
A Chain or 22 yards is the length of a Cricket pitch.
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...and a rod 1/4 of that being 16½ foot long. To make it even more logical, let´s divide the chain into 1/100s as well, and call those links...it is a chain after all.
Really am starting to see the advantages, of using imperial measurements in my everyday life...
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