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[jedidia]

I just manage to type "for" backwards unconciously. Now I'm starting to worry about my mental health...

 

[Urwumpe]

NASA has published the flight data files for STS-8 and STS-43 ... sadly, they are nearly impossible to read, because of the history... a PDF made from JPG made from Microfiche made from a xerox copy of the FDF version of an astronaut.

 

[sorindafabico]

 

[jedidia]

You forget the UK...

 

[Spacethingy]

Celsius being "logical" is a bit of joke really. "0 is the base level"?! Give me Kelvins any day... :lol:

Being from the UK and aged 19, I'd be quite happy to go metric (much easier mental maths... :shifty except for one thing: miles. I don't know why, but I just can't seem to dig kilometers. :rofl:

 

[Linguofreak]

I'll note that hardly anyone uses yards these days in the US.

And that the speed of light is very close to a billion feet per second (whereas it's 300 million m/s).

So, I vote that we define the foot to be exactly one light-nanosecond, then metricize it, so that we have millifeet, kilofeet, megafeet, gigafeet, etc.

 

[Urwumpe]

Celsius being "logical" is a bit of joke really. "0 is the base level"?! Give me Kelvins any day... :lol:

Compared to Fahrenheit or torr it is. :lol:

0°C = Melting point of water under sea-level conditions
100°C = Boiling point of water under sea-level conditions

Quite simple.

0°F = Melting point of one randomly selected brine. (u.s.l.c)
32°F = Melting point of water (u.s.l.c)
212°F = Boiling Point of water (u.s.l.c), 180°F apart from Melting point

Logical?

180° would be a good choice, if 180° further would put you back at 0°... but that doesn't happen for temperatures, so the relation to a circle makes sense.


Now to something completely different: Diego has grown the beard.

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So, I vote that we define the foot to be exactly one light-nanosecond, then metricize it, so that we have millifeet, kilofeet, megafeet, gigafeet, etc.

Why not use nanolightseconds (nls) and microlightseconds (µls) as unit of distance? :lol: The USA would be about 5.5 millilightseconds (mls) away from my place. The moon is about one ls away.

 

[MattBaker]

0°F = Melting point of one randomly selected brine. (u.s.l.c)

Excuse me, but the coldest winter someone experienced in his lifetime is not randomly selected!
I vote for the Alaska-Fahrenheit with -40°C as 0°F, the Berlin-Fahrenheit with -10°C as 0°F and the Kinshasa-Fahrenheit with 20°C as 0°F.
I mean then all trouble will be lost, everyone has a scale that is logical for his place and it's not like we're globalized and I have to understand someone when he speaks about 5 yards, 10°F or he is 6'0'' tall...

 

[Urwumpe]

Only cowards are afraid of negative temperatures. What are we, men or girls? :facepalm:

 

[Linguofreak]

Why not use nanolightseconds (nls) and microlightseconds (µls) as unit of distance? :lol: The USA would be about 5.5 millilightseconds (mls) away from my place. The moon is about one ls away.

Except for unit names, that is exactly my proposal.

"Foot" is four syllables shorter than "nano-light-second", and the syllable count for "gigafoot" and "light-second" is identical.

I'm not sure where you're getting 5.5 milli-light-seconds / megafeet between Wolfsburg and the US, though.

From where I live to Wolfsburg, Google Earth gives me 27 megafeet and change.

From Maine to Wolfsburg is about 18 megafeet.

 

[Urwumpe]

Except for unit names, that is exactly my proposal.

"Foot" is four syllables shorter than "nano-light-second", and the syllable count for "gigafoot" and "light-second" is identical.

I'm not sure where you're getting 5.5 milli-light-seconds / megafeet between Wolfsburg and the US, though.

From where I live to Wolfsburg, Google Earth gives me 27 megafeet and change.

From Maine to Wolfsburg is about 18 megafeet.

I don't like foot, because only few people have so small feet now. and it would make the foot-long at Subways much shorter.

I estimated USA (northeastern most, Maine) to Europe (western most, Iceland). Not really calculated it.

 

[Linguofreak]

I don't like foot, because only few people have so small feet now. and it would make the foot-long at Subways much shorter.

The footlong would be shorter by a factor of less than 2%.

Also, the human foot is generally *shorter* than the US foot (or the nano-light-second). A 5'11" (180 cm) Caucasian male generally has a foot length of 10.5" (27.5 cm), compared to the nanosecond * c of 30 cm and the US foot of 30.5 cm.

I estimated USA (northeastern most, Maine) to Europe (western most, Iceland). Not really calculated it.

Even then it's more like 10 megafeet.

Of course, all the distances I'm giving are as the crow flies, not as the mole digs.

 

[Urwumpe]

The world appears much smaller from up here. :facepalm:

Also, the human foot is generally *shorter* than the US foot (or the nano-light-second). A 5'11" (180 cm) Caucasian male generally has a foot length of 10.5" (27.5 cm), compared to the nanosecond * c of 30 cm and the US foot of 30.5 cm.

So small??? :blink:

Interestingly, one nanolightsecond is also very close to the height of a DIN A4 sheet of paper (29.6 cm)

 

[MattBaker]

The world appears much smaller from up here. :facepalm:

For Nordics the world is so small that a snake can surround the whole world and bite its own tail.
But they also talked about three years of winter and wolves eating the sun and the moon, so they might not be the most reliable source...

Interestingly, one nanolightsecond is also very close to the height of a DIN A4 sheet of paper (29.6 cm)

Interestingly, your foot is as big as your face (no responsibility taken for broken spines...).

 

[Urwumpe]

Interestingly, your foot is as big as your face (no responsibility taken for broken spines...).

It is far easier to prove that my foot is as big as your face... at least for me. :lol:

 

[MattBaker]

And I hope Diego keeps on playing football, with this beard he could start making remakes of Fu Manchu. Let's hope he's too small to become Darth Tyranus afterwards...

edit: Urwumpe breaks the added post, dammit

 

[Urwumpe]

And I hope Diego keeps on playing football, with this beard he could start making remakes of Fu Manchu. Let's hope he's too small to become Darth Tyranus afterwards...

edit: Urwumpe breaks the added post, dammit

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[C3PO]

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You don't get more on-topic than that! :lol:

 

[Izack]

The only problem I have with understanding kilometres is that no one measures things accordingly. Distance between three telephone poles is a quarter of a mile, so in my rural area things are measured in miles...and yet the speed limit signs are written in km/h, so speed is in that scale. So either we live with the baffling discrepancy or assume that one is the other and drive incredibly fast.

 

[C3PO]

The only problem I have with understanding kilometres is that no one measures things accordingly. Distance between three telephone poles is a quarter of a mile, so in my rural area things are measured in miles...and yet the speed limit signs are written in km/h, so speed is in that scale. So either we live with the baffling discrepancy or assume that one is the other and drive incredibly fast.

Are you sure no-one measures in kilometers? I've never seen a speedometer in telephone poles/hour. :lol: