mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
They're so high and mighty that the SI system is so consistent.
mass
But only a small number of things are measured in grams. Everyone uses kg. And if it gets too big, then they start using metric tons! Powers of 10 my rear end!
And what about Newtons? WTF is up with that? kg m/s^2
If you were going to be consistent it should have been g m/s^2. But yet Newton is the "SI unit", proving that the SI system really just does whatever it feels like.
length
When's the last time you heard someone use a Mm, as in a mega meter? No, that's a 1,000 km. Why? Because it is. 10/10/2011 10:21:47 AM |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
wat 10/10/2011 10:23:33 AM |
Tarun almost 11687 Posts user info edit post |
^ 10/10/2011 10:24:32 AM |
BobbyDigital Thots and Prayers 41777 Posts user info edit post |
We don't care about Kilograms and Kilometers because we're America and we own the fucking world so we don't have to. 10/10/2011 10:24:37 AM |
Kurtis636 All American 14984 Posts user info edit post |
Shhhh, shhhh. It'll be ok. Nobody is coming to take your 16 oz. to a pound, 12 in. to a foot, or your 5280 feet to a mile away. 10/10/2011 10:24:59 AM |
dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "because we're America and we own the fucking world" |
we did buy the world, we just haven't paid for it yet10/10/2011 10:31:43 AM |
jtw208 5290 Posts user info edit post |
^^ they are coming to take your 32.174 lbm to a slug away] 10/10/2011 10:32:05 AM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
I also like how we can't use hectometer.
I mean, for heaven's sake, the news talks about 100 m records so much.
It's the hectometer record. If you run track, you measure things in hectometers.
Proof that if you make a logical unit system, people won't use it. 10/10/2011 10:33:55 AM |
Nerdchick All American 37009 Posts user info edit post |
wat 10/10/2011 11:40:08 AM |
CalledToArms All American 22025 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "mass
But only a small number of things are measured in grams. Everyone uses kg. And if it gets too big, then they start using metric tons! Powers of 10 my rear end!
And what about Newtons? WTF is up with that? kg m/s^2
If you were going to be consistent it should have been g m/s^2. But yet Newton is the "SI unit", proving that the SI system really just does whatever it feels like." |
kilograms are actually the consistent unit in the SI system of units. So, kg-m/s² is the standard, consistent compound unit. I guess I understand what you are saying in that theoretically the consistent units should all be the "base" units but if you look up "consistent" units for SI, kg is the standard. I use both on a daily basis. I'm more comfortable these days with US units because they are used so much in the HVAC & Utilities industry and thus I use them more, but I do think that the SI units make a lot more sense overall.
If we want to complain about something related to mathematics and foreign countries, let's complain about the swapping of periods and commas . I understand that many countries use them opposite of the way we do with number systems...but it can get confusing when some foreign clients or manufacturers compensate for the fact they are dealing with an American company and use commas and periods like we do while others use them the way they normally do in submittals. I'm constantly second-guessing figures from them to see which way makes more sense.
[Edited on October 10, 2011 at 11:50 AM. Reason : ]10/10/2011 11:43:29 AM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "kilograms are actually the consistent unit in the SI system of units. So, kg-m/s² is the standard, consistent compound unit." |
Yes, that's exactly it. I mean, 1,000,000 kg is.... a million kilograms unless you're using tons. The "way of thinking" behind it, is basically like a Mkg, although it could be a Gg, a gigagram. I shutter to think of the reaction from an engineering team upon mention of a gigagram.
Dude, man, did you know that supertankers are the largest moving thing man has ever made. They're like half a gigagram.10/10/2011 12:51:15 PM |
eleusis All American 24527 Posts user info edit post |
the only reason anyone in America learned the metric system is so they could buy drugs from Mexicans. 10/10/2011 12:52:57 PM |
Roflpack All American 1966 Posts user info edit post |
I'm fat. In lbs. 10/10/2011 2:57:20 PM |
ALkatraz All American 11299 Posts user info edit post |
Tell overweight girls that they need to loose a about 10 kg and then watch the reaction when they figure out how many pounds it is. 10/10/2011 3:02:08 PM |
0EPII1 All American 42535 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Dude, man, did you know that supertankers are the largest moving thing man has ever made. They're like half a gigagram." |
half a Gg for a supertanker? 10/11/2011 4:05:12 AM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
Tg 10/11/2011 10:02:33 AM |
shanedidona All American 728 Posts user info edit post |
no one said metric is perfect; it's just better than feet/pounds/miles/etc. 10/11/2011 10:07:32 AM |
grimx #maketwwgreatagain 32337 Posts user info edit post |
i came to this thread for the fathoms and furlongs 10/11/2011 10:11:23 AM |
0EPII1 All American 42535 Posts user info edit post |
0.5 Tg fully loaded (500 Gg)
0.1 Tg dry (100 Gg)
Quote : | "no one said metric is perfect; it's just better than feet/pounds/miles/etc." |
[Edited on October 11, 2011 at 10:36 AM. Reason : ]10/11/2011 10:35:55 AM |
arghx Deucefest '04 7584 Posts user info edit post |
fourscore and 7 years ago the English did not use the Metric system 10/11/2011 11:03:05 AM |
dmspack oh we back 25426 Posts user info edit post |
the speed of light = 1.98287925 × 10^14 fathoms per fortnight
the speed of light = 1.8026175 × 10^12 furlongs per fortnight 10/11/2011 11:04:18 AM |
pack_bryan Suspended 5357 Posts user info edit post |
um mrfrog. u realize that you are arguing over using kg vs g and m vs km
all u do is drop a 00 to convert between them if you want to use the other units
what's the problem again? 10/11/2011 11:04:59 AM |
Smath74 All American 93278 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "um mrfrog. u realize that you are arguing over using kg vs g and m vs km
all u do is drop a 00 to convert between them if you want to use the other units
what's the problem again?" |
[Edited on October 11, 2011 at 11:40 AM. Reason : ]10/11/2011 11:40:15 AM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
lmao 10/11/2011 2:35:52 PM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "0.5 Tg fully loaded (500 Gg)
0.1 Tg dry (100 Gg)" |
500 Gg, or 500 GOOD GODS!
amirite?10/11/2011 2:38:07 PM |
0EPII1 All American 42535 Posts user info edit post |
gg mrfrog 10/11/2011 3:14:36 PM |
jtw208 5290 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "the speed of light = 1.98287925 × 10^14 fathoms per fortnight
the speed of light = 1.8026175 × 10^12 furlongs per fortnight" |
my preferred constant for the speed of light is 0.011751994 parsecs per fortnight
[Edited on October 11, 2011 at 6:10 PM. Reason : also, 0.04377021951 parsecs per dog-year]10/11/2011 6:08:36 PM |
merbig Suspended 13178 Posts user info edit post |
Of everything you bitch about is mass being represented in kg and not g? How about Europeans saying x weighs y kgs? Think about it! 10/11/2011 6:30:44 PM |
aph319 All American 8570 Posts user info edit post |
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it. 10/11/2011 6:31:28 PM |
jtw208 5290 Posts user info edit post |
terrible. my car gets 440 picoparsecs to the stère. 0-60 in 6 microfortnights SON
where would this thread be without wolfram alpha 10/11/2011 6:43:39 PM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it." |
http://www.google.com/search?q=convert+40+rods+%2F+hogshead+to+mpg
a) srsly Google, wtf
b) what the F are you driving? Hagrid's flying motortank?10/12/2011 8:22:41 AM |
NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35376 Posts user info edit post |
i think he's driving Grampa Simpson's car 10/12/2011 8:25:24 AM |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
So is a school bus part of the metric system?
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/10247153/
[Edited on October 12, 2011 at 8:37 AM. Reason : s] 10/12/2011 8:37:27 AM |
qntmfred retired 40600 Posts user info edit post |
bump 2/8/2012 7:56:52 AM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
I wonder if the meteor that caused the K-T extinction event weighted 1 kT exactly... 2/8/2012 8:08:04 AM |
wdprice3 BinaryBuffonary 45912 Posts user info edit post |
hmph...
Quote : | "Crews cleaning up from Hurricane Irene have removed enough debris from state roadways to fill about 2,600 school buses, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said Tuesday.
That's equivalent to more than 55,000 tons of trees and limbs " |
2/8/2012 8:39:25 AM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
2.6 kilobuses! 2/8/2012 8:41:29 AM |
0EPII1 All American 42535 Posts user info edit post |
2/8/2012 9:01:23 PM |
dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "we did buy the world, we just haven't paid for it yet" |
I just rolled my eyes at this, then I looked and saw who posted it2/8/2012 9:07:11 PM |
EMCE balls deep 89740 Posts user info edit post |
2/8/2012 9:10:53 PM |
mrfrog ☯ 15145 Posts user info edit post |
That picture reminded me that our time system is extraordinarily arbitrary at times. But in the case of time, there's so much incentive to follow the same system everyone else is, that there was never any question of what to use. We standardized it and then we were done.
The 7 day week is probably one of the most ingrained Jewdeo-Christian traditions in our modern systems. There is no natural basis for it at all, whatsoever.
But it might have made sense in certain ways. If you consider
30 days/month 12 months/yr
It sort of made sense to have the multipliers go 7-4-12. By seasons, you could say 7-4-3-4 to make it even more balanced.
Oh, but hours, minutes, and seconds also have no natural basis. Where were you on those SI system? 2/8/2012 11:30:51 PM |