I expect this thread to be a mile long by tomorrow.
party_pants said:
I expect this thread to bea mile32 Olympic swimming pools long by tomorrow.
Fixed…
Sorry what is metric we only utilisez le Système International d’Unités ou mourez, foutreurs des meres!
Arts said:
That one was laugh out loud funny…
It seems Arts has been collecting these in readiness for a thread. Perhaps she didn’t quite have enough to start one herself yet.
hahaha…I belong to a FB group for non-metric American laughs.
This is almost what a conversation is like with American OWM.
Jing Joh said:
Not sure that’s the CIE standard for banana but there you go.
Wrong thread again, DV!
dv said:
Hot enough to melt crayons in the US (they moved the board to face the sun).
dv said:
This ship had the momentum of 30 max weight Boeing 737s travelling at cruising speed.
grrrrrr…
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:
my reads this moment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_
“…DefinitionThe UK statute chain is 22 yards, which is 66 feet (20.117 m). This unit is a statute measure in the United Kingdom, defined in the Weights and Measures Act 1985. One link is a hundredth part of a chain, which is 7.92 inches (20.1 cm).
The surveyor’s chain first appears in an illustration in a Dutch map of 1607, and in an English book for surveyors of 1610. In 1593 the English mile was redefined by a statute of Queen Elizabeth I as 5,280 feet, to tie in with agricultural practice. In 1620, the polymath Edmund Gunter developed a method of accurately surveying land using a surveyor’s chain 66 feet long with 100 links. The 66-foot unit, which was four perches or rods, took on the name the chain. By 1675 it was accepted, and Ogilby wrote:
…a Word or two of Dimensurators or Measuring Instruments, whereof the mosts usual has been the Chain, and the common length for English Measures 4 Poles, as answering indifferently to the Englishs Mile and Acre, 10 such Chains in length making a Furlong, and 10 single square Chains an Acre, so that a square Mile contains 640 square Acres…’ — John Ogilby, Britannia, 1675From Gunter’s system, the chain and the link became standard surveyors’ units of length and crossed to the colonies. The thirteen states of America were expanding westward and the public land had to be surveyed for a cadastral. In 1784 Thomas Jefferson wrote a report for the Continental Congress proposing the rectangular survey system; it was adopted with some changes as the Land Ordinance of 1785 on 20 May the following year. In the report, the use of the chain as a unit of measurement was mandated, and the chain was defined…..”
I don’t suppose surveyors use chains these days, but back in the early 1970’s they were still standard practice. Real physical chains that is. They were metric chains by then.
waste
OCDC said:
Call me old fashioned but it’s kind of nice that people are still using these early 90s party drugs. I would have assumed people would have moved on to stuff I’ve never heard of.
dv said:
OCDC said:
Call me old fashioned but it’s kind of nice that people are still using these early 90s party drugs. I would have assumed people would have moved on to stuff I’ve never heard of.
OCDC said:
Sure but what’s a fun dose¿
Bubblecar said:
dv said:
OCDC said:
Call me old fashioned but it’s kind of nice that people are still using these early 90s party drugs. I would have assumed people would have moved on to stuff I’ve never heard of.
We mean if the chemicals are good and not broken why get a different fix¿ Opium is still the go to painkiller right¿
maintain your rage
cubits suck
party_pants said:
cubits suck
and feet stink.
party_pants said:
cubits suck
Yeah maybe but you didn’t need any tape measure.
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:
cubits suck
and feet stink.
LOL
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:
party_pants said:
cubits suck
and feet stink.
LOL
Rood
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:and feet stink.
LOL
Rood
Easy to mock from your Perch.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:and feet stink.
LOL
Rood
I cannot fathom what you lot are on about.
dv said:
Peak Warming Man said:
captain_spalding said:and feet stink.
LOL
Rood
LOL
Holyrood.
The poncelet (symbol p) is an obsolete unit of power, once used in France and replaced by cheval-vapeur (ch, metric horsepower). The unit was named after Jean-Victor Poncelet.
One poncelet is defined as the power required to raise a hundred-kilogram mass (quintal) at a velocity of one metre per second (100 kilogram-force·m/s).
1 p = 980.665 W =
4/3ch ≈ 1.315 hp (imperial horsepower)
dv said:
The poncelet (symbol p) is an obsolete unit of power, once used in France and replaced by cheval-vapeur (ch, metric horsepower). The unit was named after Jean-Victor Poncelet.One poncelet is defined as the power required to raise a hundred-kilogram mass (quintal) at a velocity of one metre per second (100 kilogram-force·m/s).
1 p = 980.665 W =
4/3ch ≈ 1.315 hp (imperial horsepower)
Twenty Thousand Meters Under The Sea doesn’t have the same gravitas.
Mind you 20000 leagues is not a depth you could free dive to.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
The poncelet (symbol p) is an obsolete unit of power, once used in France and replaced by cheval-vapeur (ch, metric horsepower). The unit was named after Jean-Victor Poncelet.One poncelet is defined as the power required to raise a hundred-kilogram mass (quintal) at a velocity of one metre per second (100 kilogram-force·m/s).
1 p = 980.665 W =
4/3ch ≈ 1.315 hp (imperial horsepower)
Twenty Thousand Meters Under The Sea doesn’t have the same gravitas.
Mind you 20000 leagues is not a depth you could free dive to.
Almighty God, enough – it was the distance traveled, not the depth.
party_pants said:
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
The poncelet (symbol p) is an obsolete unit of power, once used in France and replaced by cheval-vapeur (ch, metric horsepower). The unit was named after Jean-Victor Poncelet.One poncelet is defined as the power required to raise a hundred-kilogram mass (quintal) at a velocity of one metre per second (100 kilogram-force·m/s).
1 p = 980.665 W =
4/3ch ≈ 1.315 hp (imperial horsepower)
Twenty Thousand Meters Under The Sea doesn’t have the same gravitas.
Mind you 20000 leagues is not a depth you could free dive to.
Almighty God, enough – it was the distance traveled, not the depth.
Glad you cleared that up.
I’d been wondering where they got enough football teams to form 20,000 leagues.
To say nothing of why they were under the sea.
Peak Warming Man said:
dv said:
The poncelet (symbol p) is an obsolete unit of power, once used in France and replaced by cheval-vapeur (ch, metric horsepower). The unit was named after Jean-Victor Poncelet.One poncelet is defined as the power required to raise a hundred-kilogram mass (quintal) at a velocity of one metre per second (100 kilogram-force·m/s).
1 p = 980.665 W =
4/3ch ≈ 1.315 hp (imperial horsepower)
Twenty Thousand Meters Under The Sea doesn’t have the same gravitas.
Mind you 20000 leagues is not a depth you could free dive to.
Peak Warming Man said:
Mind you 20000 leagues is not a depth you could free dive to.
Piece of cake.
Now, if you want to be alive when you get there, and then come up again (alive)…that’s another matter.
captain_spalding said:
Peak Warming Man said:Mind you 20000 leagues is not a depth you could free dive to.
Piece of cake.
Now, if you want to be alive when you get there, and then come up again (alive)…that’s another matter.
Yeah, all of us can freedive to the bottom of the Marianas trench.
Being alive when you get there is a different topic.
