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.
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Now the Brits are at it too in the “anything but metric” camp
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@Arantor That's just the specific site (The Register), not Brits in general. Sheesh. (And it's half-American these days anyway.)
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@Steve_The_Cynic TFA says, explicitly, that the UK Prime Minister was using 'Eiffel Tower' as a measurement, and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is using the wingspan of the Angel of the North as a measurement.
El Reg is merely taking the piss out of it in their usual fashion.
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@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
Now the Brits are at it too in the “anything but metric” camp
Well, yes, the metric system originated in what is now an EU country, so obviously that system needs to be replaced now by something people can relate to, in order to prevent the blue line from continuing its current trend:
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@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
El Reg is merely taking the piss out of it in their usual fashion.
They didn't even convert to double-decker buses or brontosauruses
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@Gurth said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
Now the Brits are at it too in the “anything but metric” camp
Well, yes, the metric system originated in what is now an EU country
What? No. Well, yes, but no. It was created by the French.
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@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
It was created by the French.
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@loopback0 but they did point out the errors in the stated measurements in Osmans.
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@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
It was created by the French.
Yes, but they got it wrong so that's OK to use.
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RTotD: given that old units are often based on the human body, and with the natural tendency of men to brag, it's a wonder the mile wasn't originally defined as "the length of the king's penis."
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@remi I think I once heard it suggested that, in Revelations, feet were a euphemism for genitals.
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@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
feet were a euphemism for genitals.
The Foot Fetish Thread is
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@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@remi I think I once heard it suggested that, in Revelations, feet were a euphemism for genitals.
And this is how we get to the 'look for a man with big feet because big feet means big something else' thinking.
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@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@remi I think I once heard it suggested that, in Revelations, feet were a euphemism for genitals.
Genitals my foot.
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@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@remi I think I once heard it suggested that, in Revelations, feet were a euphemism for genitals.
And this is how we get to the 'look for a man with big feet because big feet means big something else' thinking.
I have huge feet and was called a giant dick recently.
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@DogsB correlation confirmed!
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@Arantor I never quite "got" this association by the way. Best explanation my brain can come up with is "men with big dicks have big feet so they don't topple forwards".
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@Medinoc said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
I never quite "got" this association by the way
such a small feet thing to say