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Unless you're sending a spacecraft to mars you'll probably be fine with 0.6 and 1.6 for your calculations.
Units of Measurement
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5 miles to 8 kilometers is a lot easier in my head, and is a good general, if rough, conversion.
Just don't mix up imperial and metric if you're refuelling airliners...
On 23rd July 1983 Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767 ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet (12,000m) altitude, about halfway through its flight from Montreal to Edmonton. The crew managed to glide the aircraft safely to a casualty-free emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, a former airbase at Manitoba. The ground crew at Montreal had filled the tanks according to their records.
The fuel requirements were assumed to be in litres but they had been recorded in gallons...
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A naval ship tried to load my helicopter in kg when it should have been in lbs. Could have crashed if no one noticed that the power was way too high as we flew off the deck edge.
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I am always surprised to find that certain industries still use imperial units for anything. Well, perhaps other than marketing material selling to Americans.
Why hasn't the military completely converted to metric?
Why hasn't the airline industry -- literally everything at airports -- converted to metric? --- Seriously, where is the value to anyone to measuring jet fuel in imperial vs metric?
Why hasn't the entire space industry always been metric?
Remember this?
Metric vs Imperial Units: How NASA lost a 327 Million Dollar Mission to Mars
Imagine a simple conversion error caused a multi-million dollar mission to go puff! We explore how the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999.
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Each time I hear about industries having issues because they haven't converted to metric my brain explodes - AGAIN.
I've partially fixed this, but it's very easy to convert from Bananas to Swifties, as you simply divide by 10, and then multiply by 6 to get Pug Dogs.
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All aviation globally uses feet for altitude. Considering there are 100 year old planes flying, I can see why no one was in a hurry to try and move systems.I am always surprised to find that certain industries still use imperial units for anything. Well, perhaps other than marketing material selling to Americans.
Why hasn't the military completely converted to metric?
Why hasn't the airline industry -- literally everything at airports -- converted to metric? --- Seriously, where is the value to anyone to measuring jet fuel in imperial vs metric?
Why hasn't the entire space industry always been metric?
Remember this?
Metric vs Imperial Units: How NASA lost a 327 Million Dollar Mission to Mars
Imagine a simple conversion error caused a multi-million dollar mission to go puff! We explore how the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999.
Each time I hear about industries having issues because they haven't converted to metric my brain explodes - AGAIN.
Harpo
Getting away with it
With this list of things-per-second, we can work out by how many times a cat’s purr has to speed up to become visible.
And other such nonsense
And other such nonsense
It seems that this pumpkin is really living up to the name, Squash.
(Note that the pumpkin is already heavier than the largest Sumatran rhino (the smallest species), but is nowhere as heavy as the White and Indian rhinos.)
(Note that the pumpkin is already heavier than the largest Sumatran rhino (the smallest species), but is nowhere as heavy as the White and Indian rhinos.)
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Is the other twin underneath it?
It made me wonder what other sort of twins there are, apart from a pair...
The pumpkin is the other twin...
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Looks like the opening to a lost Roald Dahl story.
Sara and the giant pumpkin... Hate to find out what's living inside this one!
Why not Venison burgers?
I'll have to add a column for "bicycle" height to that chart now!
I'll have to add a column for "bicycle" height to that chart now!
The twins being mentioned are a couple of men in their early sixties.
The girl in the image is the three-year-old granddaughter of one of the twins.
Alex The G and T
Thar! That Blows.
The gourd weighs as much as 350 toddlers.
3 adult deer can run as fast as 4 bicycles if the wind is in the west.
If 350 toddlers and one gourd are dropped from the tower of Pisa at the same time they will all hit the tourist below at the same time. (As long as none of them come from Trondheim.)
If 350 toddlers and one gourd are dropped from the tower of Pisa at the same time they will all hit the tourist below at the same time. (As long as none of them come from Trondheim.)
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Damn, way to ruin my sadistic delusions!
Danny McG
"Anything can happen in the next half hour!"
A while ago I was strolling through town with my wife, she suddenly stopped and pointed,
"Aw, look at the cute little twins, two of them"
This left me wondering if she'd saw one at some point and thought "that kid looks like a twin going solo for the day"
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