Lots of snow

[bryan986]

[vt_mruhlin]

 See, wayto kick me when I'm down.  Was in Breckenridge 2 weeks ago and the snow was terrible.  Last monday (day after I left) they got like 25 inches.  Not this week they get 4406378496 inches?  Talk about bad timing on my part!

[henke37]

We need a comparison value. Like the distance to the moon or something like that.

[Shinhan]

 About one third of the distance to the moon

[ComputerForumUser1]

 About 7 536 836 world's longest snakes.

[Welbog]

@ComputerForumUser said:

About 7 536 836 world's longest snakes.

65 766 843 smoots.

[bstorer]

 @Welbog said:

@ComputerForumUser said:

About 7 536 836 world's longest snakes.

65 766 843 smoots.

1.63337901 × 10¹⁴ dyne / (slug * Hz²)

[Someone_You_Know]

 A bit over 10000 times the radius of Phobos.

[DaveK1]

@Someone You Know said:

 A bit over 10000 times the radius of Phobos.

799442955.70285714285714285714286 lg.

[Welbog]

@bstorer said:

@Welbog said:

@ComputerForumUser said:

About 7 536 836 world's longest snakes.

65 766 843 smoots.

1.63337901 × 10¹⁴ dyne / (slug * Hz²)

3.08640586 × 10⁷ lightfortnights

[tdb]

@Welbog said:

3.08640586 × 10^-7 lightfortnights

FTFY (you were missing a minus sign from the exponent)

[jimheem]

(440) 637-8496

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Location: Painesville, OH

[Welbog]

@tdb said:

@Welbog said:

3.08640586 × 10^-7 lightfortnights

FTFY (you were missing a minus sign from the exponent)

Oh yeah, thanks.

[cconroy]

 @henke37 said:

We need a comparison value. Like the distance to the moon or something like that.

Approximately 0.25 nKr (nanoKesselruns)

[Fred_Foobar]

A little over 3 times the height of geostationary orbit.

373.33 light-milliseconds.

Ten and a quarter Triganic Ningis laid end-to-end.

2.23844028 × 10¹⁶ beard-seconds.

[bstorer]

@Welbog said:

@bstorer said:

@Welbog said:

@ComputerForumUser said:

About 7 536 836 world's longest snakes.

65 766 843 smoots.

1.63337901 × 10¹⁴ dyne / (slug * Hz²)

3.08640586 × 10⁷ lightfortnights

Approximately 2,342,572.3 copies of every word SpectateSwamp ever posted to this forum, printed to letter paper and laid end-to-end.

[morbiuswilters]

@bstorer said:

@Welbog said:

@bstorer said:

@Welbog said:

@ComputerForumUser said:

About 7 536 836 world's longest snakes.

65 766 843 smoots.

1.63337901 × 10¹⁴ dyne / (slug * Hz²)

3.08640586 × 10⁷ lightfortnights

Approximately 2,342,572.3 copies of every word SpectateSwamp ever posted to this forum, printed to letter paper and laid end-to-end.

And yet none of these is as stupid as the stupid Metric system. 

[Welbog]

@morbiuswilters said:

[quote user="bstorer"][quote user="Welbog"][quote user="bstorer"][quote user="Welbog"][quote user="ComputerForumUser"]About 7 536 836 world's longest snakes.

65 766 843 smoots.[/quote]1.63337901 × 10¹⁴ dyne / (slug * Hz²)[/quote]3.08640586 × 10⁷ lightfortnights[/quote] Approximately 2,342,572.3 copies of every word SpectateSwamp ever posted to this forum, printed to letter paper and laid end-to-end.[/quote]And yet none of these is as stupid as the stupid Metric system.[/quote]Johnny Metric would like to have a word with you over his measurement system.

[Renan]

You engineer types and your exxageration on accuracy... Can't we just call that one fuckload of snow and be done with it?

[cconroy]

[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]You engineer types and your exxageration on accuracy... Can't we just call that one fuckload of snow and be done with it? [/quote]

Depends.  Is that an imperial fuckload or a metric one?

[bstorer]

@morbiuswilters said:

@bstorer said:

@Welbog said:

@bstorer said:

@Welbog said:

@ComputerForumUser said:

About 7 536 836 world's longest snakes.

65 766 843 smoots.

1.63337901 × 10¹⁴ dyne / (slug * Hz²)

3.08640586 × 10⁷ lightfortnights

Approximately 2,342,572.3 copies of every word SpectateSwamp ever posted to this forum, printed to letter paper and laid end-to-end.

And yet none of these is as stupid as the stupid Metric system. 

Actually, I'm pretty sure the metric system is based upon the ramblings of Ol' Swampy.

[belgariontheking]

[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]You engineer types and your exxageration on accuracy... Can't we just call that one fuckload of snow and be done with it?[/quote]I prefer the metric fuckton.

Also, I know it's not your quote, but I'm going to be a pedant and point out the gramatical inaccuracy in your signature.  it should be "you and me employed."  

It didn't bug me when snoofle originally said it, but seeing it on all your posts does bug me.  Can you put a [sic] after the I?

[bstorer]

@belgariontheking said:

[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]You engineer types and your exxageration on accuracy... Can't we just call that one fuckload of snow and be done with it?

I prefer the metric fuckton.[/quote] Also known as the fucktonne.

[loofah]

@belgariontheking said:

Also, I know it's not your quote, but I'm going to be a pedant and point out the gramatical inaccuracy in your signature.  it should be "you and me employed."  

It didn't bug me when snoofle originally said it, but seeing it on all your posts does bug me.  Can you put a [sic] after the I?

 

The original is grammatically correct.  If you were just talking about yourself, you would use 'me' so you also use 'me' when you add other people.

"That's what keeps me employed"  becomes "That's what keeps you and me employed"

whereas

"Yesterday, I posted on TDWTF" becomes "Yeterday, you and I posted on TDWTF"

[Guest]

@loofah said:

The original is grammatically correct.

 

@snoofle said:

That hideousness is what keeps you and I employed!

@belgariontheking said:

it should be "you and me employed." 

For what it's worth, I initially misinterpreted too.

[Renan]

Maybe I is an acquaitance of snoofle.

Also, imperial fuckload FTW!

[DaveK1]

[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]

Maybe I is an acquaitance of snoofle.

Also, imperial fuckload FTW!

[/quote] <g> It's a fairly old joke TBH... Other well-known units that also come in Imperial and Metric varieties are the boatload, crapton, fuckton, and shitload. 

[fyjham]

@DaveK said:

[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]

Maybe I is an acquaitance of snoofle.

Also, imperial fuckload FTW!

<g> It's a fairly old joke TBH... Other well-known units that also come in Imperial and Metric varieties are the boatload, crapton, fuckton, and shitload.[/quote]

Gotta love the reactions you can get if you use it in a formal situation where the other person is expecting a real measurement. My favourite is the good ol' "approximately 1.2 metric shitloads" ;)

Or by the measurement system described [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/[/url], 799442955.7 EU standard (Florentine) linguine (Unboiled at sea level), or 809357.6 brontosaurus's. And yes I'm incredibly depressed that I remembered that 2 and a half years later :P

[tgape]

[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]You engineer types and your exxageration on accuracy... Can't we just call that one fuckload of snow and be done with it?[/quote]

I'm surprised nobody caught this, but... that's a *lot* of fuckloads of snow.  I mean, snow doesn't fall in one simple inch-square area.  After musing upon the probable volume we're talking about, it's clear to me that it's at least a metric megafuckload of snow.

Further, as there isn't enough water on this planet to make that much snow, I'm concerned about what's going to happen to the ocean levels when it melts.  (On the bright side, that will probably not be for several years, at least.)