The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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it's pretty racist to people in the past
Now listen, some of my best friends are people from the past, but they keep coming here and taking our jobs...
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your daily life? no. but i did point out one where it would matter for a mineralogist employed by the oil industry.
Exactly.
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Is it just me or does the gravitational field at our altitude make me look fat?
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I remember the first time I went to a bar in the US and ordered a pint of beer. The server came back with this tiny little glass because it turns out that even though the US fluid ounce is [i]slightly[/i] larger than the Imperial fluid ounce, there are only 16 floz to the US pint, rather than 20 floz to the Imperial pint.
For those keeping score at home, there are 16.65 Imperial fluid ounces to the US pint.
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Only at sea level though.
Letseee... most of the planet is below 20-ish thousand feet or about, mmm, 4 miles.
Radius of Earth, about 4000 miles,
and Fermi says:
BING! mass and weight are close enough.
Filed under: Think of Fermi's children!
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You should never order beer in quantities less than a pitcher.
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and Fermi says:
BING! mass and weight are close enough.
but they're not the same thing!!!!!!
Mass is mass and weight is mass times distance divided by time divided by time! (mass times acceleration)
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"close enough" != "="
Filed under: Odd, I'm always arguing the other side of this because I know they're not the same
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Filed under: Odd, I'm always arguing the other side of this because I know they're not the same
Filed under: @accalia should really lrn2pedant if she wants that badger...
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Mass is mass
Not always. Mass will change depending on the observer, according to special relativity. If my ~ 75 kg is observed by someone traveling at 0.95c relative to me, they will think my mass is 240kg.1
1http://www.ultimate-theory.com/en/2012/12/26/special-relativity-mass-calculator
Filed Under: Sports cars make you (slightly) fat(ter).
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Not always. Mass will change depending on the observer, according to special relativity. If my ~ 75 kg is observed by someone traveling at 0.95c, they will think my mass is 240kg.1
if i'm not getting flags for my mass/weight pedantry i'm certainly not handing them out either! :-P
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Letseee... most of the planet is below 20-ish thousand feet or about, mmm, 4 miles.
Radius of Earth, about 4000 miles,
Scaling and comparing, the Earth is much smoother than an equivalent sized snooker ball would be.
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Bad example: kgs are the most messed up unit of the entire metric/SI system.
- It's a unit of mass, but most people call it "weight", which is a force. The unit of force is the Newton.
- It has a prefix in its name. If it followed the rules, a thousand kgs should be a kilokilogram, and a gram should be a millikilogram.
- Still no physical definition. 54 years after the meter was defined as a fraction of the distance the light travels in one second, we still rely on one 125-year-old object stored in Paris. That has been measured to lose mass relative to its copies.
Joules come second for being so small and shitty that nobody ever uses them.
CGPM, get it together.
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I think we need to construct an Earth-sized snooker ball to be sure though. For science!
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CGPM, get it together
And until they do, the rest of the world should join Burma and Liberia in flocking to the American-system.
Filed under: why do I feel like I'm trolling myself?
EDIT: added Liberia thanks to @Tar
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i didn't mention the kg on purpose but if you insist
we're working on that.
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You forgot Liberia.
Doesn't everyone, though?
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Everyone likes to forget Liberia. And the rest of Sub-Saharan African countries.
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It has a prefix in its name. If it followed the rules, a thousand kgs should be a kilokilogram, and a gram should be a millikilogram.
Well, that's because--and correct if I'm wrong, or maybe hanzo'ed, but the gram is the standard SI unit, not the kg.
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Now that right there is funny.
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Nope, that's what it would seem, but the kg is the standard unit. Just read the discoembedbox:
And it can't be changed because of the derived units. You'd have to rename it to something else.
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Snort. Well, live and learn. I always thought that with the 1:1 relation to the other unprefixed SI UoMs that the base unit was the gram, but we all use the kg because it's more useful.
Or maybe I knew that at one point but forgot.
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It's a unit of mass, but most people call it "weight", which is a force. The unit of force is the Newton.
Yeah -- most people don't want to make that distinction...
It has a prefix in its name. If it followed the rules, a thousand kgs should be a kilokilogram, and a gram should be a millikilogram.
That's a historical quirk of MKS vs CGS units -- worse yet is that a thousand kgs is a metric ton, not a megagram. I have seen numbers given in Gg before, though...Still no physical definition. 54 years after the meter was defined as a fraction of the distance the light travels in one second, we still rely on one 125-year-old object stored in Paris. That has been measured to lose mass relative to its copies.
Watt balances will fix that...in fact, if you want to build your own, here you go.Joules come second for being so small and shitty that nobody ever uses them.
They make perfectly good sense when you can dispense energy in arbitrarily small quantities (electronics, for instance). Besides, isn't that why SI has prefixes?
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IMDB disagrees on the quote
I don't know about IMDB but I'm sure spelling is disagreeing.
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Close enough for anything less than a tablespoon
But if my recipe calls for 4 deciliter and I only have a measuring cup that says centiliter I can easily solve that without a calculator.
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You don't really need a "consistent set of units" in day-to-day life. You need units that are easy to relate to. Many English/imperial units are relatable to items you encounter on a daily basis. For example, a standard teaspoon can be used to measure teaspoons. Same for tablespoons. Many teacups and mugs are approximately 8 floz, or 1 cup. You can't really say the same about metric units.
"Grams" are useful and relatable in daily life.
If you're a drug dealer.
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Why over complicate life
Wat? Why don't cover complicate! This is TDWTF sir! Where pendants come to swing around.
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kg
It's explained in that video as well, if you have time (or just skip to about halfway...)
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Is it just me or does the gravitational field at our altitude make me look fat?
That would dependend doesn't it? I have the impression it gives you big feet and a smaller head.
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You should never order beer in quantities more than a pint
FTFYIt's a sure indication you're drinking horse piss.
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It's a sure indication you're drinking horse piss.
You guys must have awesome horses over there.
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You guys must have awesome horses over there.
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hmm...
here's something to consider, why does the "imperial" system not have a unit for mass in common usage?
we all do know that the pound is a unit of force right? not a unit of mass...
right?
I hereby propose the @accalia as the Imperial unit of mass.
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i'll agree to that, so long as the @ is a proper part of the unit name. :-)
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"close enough" != "="
Filed under: Odd, I'm always arguing <small><small> the other side of this because I know they're not the same </small></small>
Correct, that's assignment.
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i'll agree to that, so long as the @ is a proper part of the unit name. :-)
Every time someone uses it, you get a notification.
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Every time someone uses it, you get a notification.
a price i'm willing to pay to have a proper SI unit named after me!
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a price i'm willing to pay to have a proper SI unit named after me!
Sure, you say that now, but how about after watching a few "hey! listen!" videos on youtube?
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Navi never really bothered me...
now the deku tree... that annoyed me. unskipable boring as heck and the default answer is tell me again so if you press A one to many times you have to go through it all over again!
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I have a consistent set of units in day to day life. Pounds, cups, ounces, inches, feet, etc.
Well, yes. I was just using @tar's phrasing to avoid confusing the poor guy.
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but science! force is not mass!
As I mentioned earlier: countries which use imperial do so in daily life. For science, those countries use metric.
Since the average person is concerned with life on earth in their daily life on earth, the distinction between mass and force is pointless. As a correlary to this, the ratio between mass and weight (to keep it simple) is consistent enough at any habitable altitude that the change can be ignored for daily life.
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Only one problem: it's proper name is "the English system."
Well, yes. I was just using @tar's phrasing
Hmm...
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Joules come second for being so small and shitty that nobody ever uses them
What about farads, which are so huge everything in regular use is in the milli range?
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Ouch. Wonder if it was all in one or in bits
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Thank you the mental image(s).
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Correct, that's assignment.
Danged ferners and their fern' linguges -
Next thing yuz know I'll be havin to learn Esperantese to read