Units of Measurement

[Pyan]

Are the bananas peeled or unpeeled? Are they ripe or unripe? This could give a missreading...

As could the giraffe - an unripe, peeled giraffe has got to be smaller than a ripe, unpeeled one...

 

[THX1138]

There are four species of Giraffe and 24 types of Banans... Thats a lot of Bananas!

 

[Parson]

Okay, This thread is bananas.

 

[Elckerlyc]

Okay, This thread is bananas.

Which type?

 

[Wlazlakt]

Some day people will have forgot that the world is 24000 miles in circumference that is about 7640 miles in diameter if 764 is divided by 2 that is 382 times pi. 3.1415 = 12 if that is in inches ( this will be covered later )
gravity falls at 32 feet per second in inches that is 32 time 12 = 384 inches plus = 768 that is the same as 32 times 24 = 768 -- the speed of sound is 1126.4 -- times 60 times 60 = 4055040 feet per hr. divided by feet in a mile 5280 = 768 miles per hr. speed of sound 24000 miles divided by 768 = 31.25 hr for sound to go around the earth in Egypt there is a pyramid that is in Royal cubits that is 440 base and 281 are so cubits high 440 times 12 = 5280 -- 31.25 times 9 = 281.25
going back to 12 inches in cubic foot is 1728 square inches - sea water weighs 64 lbs a cubic foot so:
64 / 1728 = .03703704 lbs per cubic inch times 27 = 1 pound - that means because the earth is 24000 miles in circumference 1 lb of sea water is a 3 by 3 by 3 cube Point being there is not point it is a equal number.
This being the speed of light is 186000 miles a second the sun is 93 million miles from the earth - the earth's circumference is 1000 seconds across in diameter and in - circumference is 3141 seconds around ( or pi. )
This stuff only works if the earth is 24000 miles in circumference
limestone weighs 165 lbs per cubic foot 165 times 32 = 5280
interesting the 98.6 f. is body temp. 986 square root = 31.4
units of measurements like the real horsepower
in 1782 James Watt an Engineer developed the units related to Steam engines and how much a draft-horse could lift in 1 hr. - How it was developed
the maximum speed of a house is about 30 miles an hr. - that is 44 ft. per second
so 1/2 mile an hr. is 44 ft a minute - So if a horse could lift 750 lbs 44 ft. in 1 minute
that would relate to 44 times 750 = 33000 lbs lifted 1 ft. in 1 minute
if you divide 60 second by 44 ft. this = 1.36363636 ( has everyone brain shut down yet?) there's more
So: 33000 / 1.36363636 = 550 this is the weight 1 horse power can lift in 1 second
( based on 32 feet per second gravity based on the number ( 6 ) to say in 32 feet
1 2 4 8 16 32 -- a doubled amount divided in 6 units based on 12 inches = 384 plus = 768 the speed of sound in Mph. to the feet of 126,720,000 ft. around the earth of and equal amount
missing the point of how Inches, feet, miles, the speed of sound - the speed of light - and most everything in units of measurements are based on an earth being 24000 miles from some point in time before 30,000 year ago. as there are relation to the foot the are in the range of 30,000 years old.
But use where ever unit of measurement is most usable for you as it is not important - there is only ten fingers and ten toes to chose from.

Where do the stories of Perpetual motion machines go?

thanks The Engineer, retired.

 

[Parson]

Which type?

The wild kind.

 

[farntfar]

The wild bunch?

 

[Wayne Mack]

I still haven't got a clue about Lumens. I needed to buy a replacement light bulb and I still look for the x Watt equivalent.

 

[Alex The G and T]

A "City Killer" asteroid, "the size of a Football Stadium" made a close approach to Earth, today.

Other accounts stated that the giant stone was "Skyscaper sized."

Well, that seems a little vague. Aside from a possible discrepancy between a measured stadium designed for American Football vs a stadium designed for international football; at least such stadiums come with a centerpiece which has an actual, definable dimension.

A skyscraper could be sized willy nilly according to when or where built; compared to which other skyscrapers, then, now or future?

 

[Pyan]

 

[Lumens]

I still haven't got a clue about Lumens.

You're not the only one...

 

[Christine Wheelwright]

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I wonder if that's where the makers of Spinal Tap got the idea for the 18 inch version of Stone 'enge.

 

[Danny McG]

This is something that's been mentioned a good few times in Chrons, especially in the "what's the weather like....." thread.
Using the Centigrade scale for temperature.

Google says it's name was officially changed (worldwide) from Centigrade to Celsius way back in 1948.

However I still remember learning about Centigrade at school in the UK in 1972, I think maybe they hadn't updated the school text books.

 

[farntfar]

I also remember the weathermen in the sixties saying stuff like "A sweltering 81° this afternoon; that's 27 degrees centigrade if you prefer."

(Or more like 75 and 24°, back when that was about as hot as it got. Temperatures like 81 didn't come to Britain until 1976.)

 

[Matteo]

Hmm... fairly certain I was taught about Centigrade (not Celsius) in the late 70s. Possibly early 80s also.

And I'm absolutely certain UK weathermen continued to use Fahrenheit (followed by Centigrade - not Celsius) well into the 80s.

 

[Pyan]

I could never understand why they'd want to change to an inherently vaguer system. Surely the difference between the freezing and boiling point of water being divided into 100 parts instead of 180 is less capable of being precise?

And "80° summer weather forecast for Bank Holiday!" sounds much better than "28.66° summer weather forecast for Bank Holiday!"

 

[farntfar]

I think, when such low temperatures were considered hot for the time of year, that the phrase, "Coo! What a scorcher." was the standard wording.

Or do it in Kelvin, to make it seem really hot. 300°K when rounded.

 

[Pyan]

It shouldn't even be called Celsius!
When Anders Celsius created his original scale in 1742 he chose 0° for the boiling point and 100° for the freezing point of water. A little over a year later Frenchman Jean Pierre Cristin proposed an inverted version of the scale (freezing point 0°, boiling point 100°), which was adopted. It wasn't until 1948 that the name "Celsius scale" was formally adopted, instead of the "Cristin Scale " Not that it would made any real difference, as it would still be abbreviated to " x° C" either way.

Centigrade just means "measured on a scale divided into 100 equal parts", but I and my contemporaries were taught this as the name for the 0°-100° scale. I still think in °F, and have to mentally convert to °C. I use 16°C and 61°F as a useful equivalance to start converting one to the other.

Difference between Celsius, Centigrade and Fahrenheit?

 

[CupofJoe]

I'm of the age where at school I was taught metric and imperial scales and measures. So that might be why, when it's cold its "-5" and when it hot it "over 80"

 

[Vertigo]

I think for a long time it was only the scientific community called it Celsius. Certainly at Uni in the mid seventies it was always Celsius in Physics and Electronics.

I was quite an early adopter of metric for many things. I simply can't think of mountain heights in feet I have no concept of how high they are without doing a rough conversion to metres. And when walking I don't have any idea of how big a day I'm planning unless it is in kilometres. Also in the kitchen start talking pounds, ounces and, particularly, fluid ounces and I'm immediately lost (and not mentioning cups...). A litre of water is a kilogram - how simple is that.

[And don't get me started on the idiotic pounds, shillings and pence - I mean let's see just how complicated we can make accounting for everyone!]