Wait, the circumference is about 25,000 miles, so like 40,000 km. Googling… oh, it was the distance from a pole to the equator, so a quarter of the circumference. Did not know that.
Also, the kg was defined by a platinum sphere in Paris for a long time, but its mass was changing, and somewhat recently they defined it using a sort of electromagnetic scale thing.
Crap, did I say it wrong? I thought I knew it.
The width of a dead guy’s thumb is demonstrably easier to guesstimate.
You said circumference, it’s a quarter of that. Eh, you knew more than I did, I don’t recall knowing anything about where the km came from.
I just remembered thinking it was dumb that they made it a ten-millionth rather than a millionth… but thinking that they probably wanted to make the meter roughly equal to a yard, hence the weird definition.
Also, if I can be pedantic, circumference is weird because the earth isn’t a sphere, it’s fatter around the equator. An oblate spheroid, roughly.
Also, with regards to the metric system:
been very congested clearing some crud I caught while traveling. blowing into a kleenex something huge flew out of my head and bounced. i found it, but the happy part is…there has been zero congestion in the 3 hours since. like that was the last flaming ember of something
kids heard me joke about getting a shirt with a parody of the “three wolves howling at moon” image with our dog in the photo. and so they photoshopped something and put it on a shirt. wore that tonight!
Just had a flashback of trying to retrieve objects out of my kid’s nose.
But you don’t need to use the claw when you pick a pear of the big paw-paw
The “pear” necessities of life
Why the metric system is dumb:
This the most cited reason for using the metric system is using the base 10 formula. Kilometer is 1000 meters, a kilogram is 1000 grams ect. But everyone seems to fail to realize that you can do the same thing with the imperial system.
Take the kilopound, it’s 1000 pounds, a cenipound could be 1/100 of a pound. You’ve just taken the base 10 advantage of the metric system and applied it to the imperial system with little to no reducation of training.
But they don’t, do they. How many yards in a mile? Not any multiple off 10.
Need a pic
1,760 yards in a mile, which is 176 * 10. Checkmate.
Yeah, I really gotta watch it around this place. I’d have gotten away with that anywhere else. Here? Factchecked into oblivion.
You win the internet today.
1760
For some reason watching the deer in my neighborhood look both ways before crossing the street cracks me up every time I see it.
Also there is a crosswalk that the Canada geese tend to stay in. They sometimes cross against the signal, so they’re not totally domesticated yet, but they do typically stay in the crosswalk.
IFYP
