08-25-2008, 01:34 PM
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 Re: Please Trim Your Headers
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:59:51 +0100, ah wrote:
> Peter Hucker wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:16:42 +0100, Snarky wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:22:48 -0700, Juan Tootreego wrote these lies,
>>> denials, arrogant assertions, erroneous presuppositions, and/or
>>> obfuscations:
>>>> Peter Hucker says...
>>>>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:11:01 +0100, Juan Tootreego wrote:
>>>>> > Neil Barker says...
>>>>> >> "ah" wrote...
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > The stone.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> 14 lbs! ROTFLMAO!
>>>>> >
>>>>> > How much is that in kilos?
>>>>>
>>>>> Some believe that the world converting to the metric system would
>>>>> greatly simplify our measures. But look what would really happen to our
>>>>> old cliches:
>>>>>
>>>>> A miss is as good as 1.6 kilometers.
>>>>> Put your best 0.3 of a meter forward. Spare the 5.03 meters and spoil
>>>>> the child. Twenty-eight grams of prevention is worth 453 grams of cure.
>>>>> Give a man 2.5 centimeters and he'll take 1.6 kilometers. Peter Piper
>>>>> picked 8.8 liters of pickled peppers.
>>>>
>>>> I'll agree to move to metric when we measure *time* in decimals. E.g. 10
>>>> hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute.
>>>>
>>>> And let's not talk about the calendar...
>>>
>>> Someone worked out a decimal system for measuring time, I think, in some
>>> sf series, though I don't know how detailed it was offhand.
>>
>> It couldn't be done without changing the length of a second, which would **** up all scientific calculations.
>
> That's almost like saying that the price of oil is irrevocably tied to the $.
>
> We could barter in base-17 for all the transaction matters; the Rule is that
> both (or all) parties understand )and transact in) the de facto standard being
> used.
Everything is based around the second in SI units. All the constants would have to be ****ed about with.
Hey isn't this why the shuttle crashed?
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