Unit of Measurement WTF
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... roughly 6000 cubic kilometers of water or more to the ocean per decade, more than enough to fill the Grand Canyon
At least, they originally used a metric unit.
But why do they use adecade
instead of ayear
? A year wouldn't fill up the Grand Canyon...
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@BernieTheBernie said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
But why do they use a
decade
instead of ayear
? A year wouldn't fill up the Grand Canyon...Answering your own question, I see.
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@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@BernieTheBernie said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
But why do they use a
decade
instead of ayear
? A year wouldn't fill up the Grand Canyon...Answering your own question, I see.
And 6000 is way more ominous than 600.
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@dcon In 15 years they could go for Over 9000!
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@DogsB “Americans will use anything but metric for measuring” - even South Americans.
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@DogsB The curator of the Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial, Ryan Szimanski, is 6' tall. Many dimensions of the ship, especially the height of interior spaces, are measured in units of "curators".
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@HardwareGeek what happens if his replacement, when he eventually retires, is not 6’?
Is being precisely 6’ one of the job requirements?
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@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@HardwareGeek what happens if his replacement, when he eventually retires, is not 6’?
Is being precisely 6’ one of the job requirements?
Standard issue Prussian.