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Originally Posted by TampaRaleigh
(Post 15188809)
Metric? Imperial? Heck... I'm just switching to the subway system of "close enough".
"Subway Response To 'Footlong' Controversy: Name 'Not Intended To Be A Measurement Of Length'" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2511316.html |
Our cold snap broke. 33 degrees this morning. 10 degrees better than yesterday @ 0700.
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11" footlongs? Those bastards!
Internet fast food mythbusters are so stupid, though. They should be weighing them, not measuring them. |
Originally Posted by Velo Vol
(Post 15187987)
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Originally Posted by patentcad
(Post 15188493)
while I focus on the Big Picture
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Originally Posted by Soloist Assassin
(Post 15188606)
The metric system is a far more superior unit of measure. 13.07lbs, or 5928g, which sounds more accurate? The numbers mean the same thing, but the metric system just seems more proper. Not to mention the Celsius system goes to zero at the point of freezing. Zero in Fahrenheit, doesn't mean much at all, except it's really freaking freezing. Then the whole inches vs centimeter thing. Only a fool would reject learning the metric system.
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Originally Posted by RTDub
(Post 15188587)
Hockey rules all. Speaking of supplemental programming, this year I am ditching the Dish for good and buying MLB.tv premium. I don't get Rockies games due to blackout, but that's ok as I am a Cubs fan. Can watch on Roku, Android, any game, anywhere, anytime.
Center Ice is free until the end of the month, but due to Avs blackouts, not worth my money :-\ |
Originally Posted by WhyFi
(Post 15188705)
Meters were originally based upon 1/10,000,000th of the distance from Equator to North Pole
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Originally Posted by 2manybikes
(Post 15188932)
Thermometer on the bike.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
(Post 15188942)
Yet in everyday usage metric users are using coarser units. Metric weathermen report on whole degrees celcius, metric rulers ant tape measures typically only go as fine as whole mms while thirtyseconds of an inch are easy to come by. My most precise metal rule has 64ths and half mms. HALF MM! What the hell kinda pseudo metric crap is that?
And metric centuries aren't real centuries, they are just long bike rides. |
Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
(Post 15188020)
THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY
West coast hippies. |
Originally Posted by Velo Vol
(Post 15188946)
The North Pole is not at a stationary spot.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
(Post 15188959)
Not the magnetic north, you dolt.
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ZDang, me too. This spring I go clipless, I mean it this time :)
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Originally Posted by 2manybikes
(Post 15188932)
Thermometer on the bike. If i'm comfortable, I look at the thermometer, and try to remember what I was wearing at that temperature for next time.
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Originally Posted by Rowan
(Post 15188652)
It's really odd that a country such as the US persists with imperial measurement except for its money which is in metric.
Patton, I think: "I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French Division behind." |
Originally Posted by WhyFi
(Post 15189032)
I'm aware. You'll notice my caveat that they were "originally based upon the distance..." Wobble of the axis wasn't known and measured until long after the standard was created and subsequently changed.
To further reduce uncertainty, the seventeenth CGPM in 1983 replaced the definition of the metre with its current definition, thus fixing the length of the metre in terms of the second and the speed of light: The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1⁄299,792,458 of a second.[2] This definition fixed the speed of light in vacuum at exactly 299,792,458 metres per second. |
How far back do I need to read back?
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Originally Posted by coasting
(Post 15189123)
How far back do I need to read back?
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Originally Posted by coasting
(Post 15189123)
How far back do I need to read back?
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riveting.
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Originally Posted by RTDub
(Post 15188949)
And what the Hell ever happened to decimeters, hectometers and decameters? If yer gonna use it, use all of it!
And metric centuries aren't real centuries, they are just medium length bike rides. |
Originally Posted by patentcad
(Post 15187991)
You'll be in bed with your 4' high Hello Kitty plush toy.
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