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Furlongs per Fortnight vs Microns per Sidereal Month

July 24, 2024

Besides,
a real American can use both systems

11 THOUGHTS ON “Furlongs per Fortnight vs Microns per Sidereal Month”

  • tom says:
    July 25, 2024 at 9:23 am

    Liberty son, Liberty.

  • leelu says:
    July 25, 2024 at 10:18 am

    Just remember to use the right units for the job.

    https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/6Page53.pdf

  • rickn8or says:
    July 25, 2024 at 10:46 am

    In the last 55 years, how many metric-using countries have put footprints on the moon?

  • blake says:
    July 25, 2024 at 2:39 pm

    5.56 = .22 cal
    7.62 = .308
    9mm = .38

    45acp = has no commie metric equivalent.

    • DougM says:
      July 25, 2024 at 4:38 pm

      *heh*
      Yep, an essential list
      with a fun quibble for you 9mm nit-pickers:

      9mm = 0.354in,
      38spl bullet is 0.357in dia,
      38spl is a trade name (like 45acp), and
      357mag is an extended 38spl.
      They’re all 9mms

      (What? Nope, quitting there. Not gonna do the short 9s: 380acp, 9mm kurz, etc.)

      • Igor says:
        July 31, 2024 at 3:55 am

        Geez, Doug, why not?
        …and a 50 Cal is 12.3mm and will Make Your Day.

  • dick not quite dead white guy says:
    July 25, 2024 at 8:09 pm

    We had metric units foisted upon us in engineering school in ~1965. The arithmetic is simple enough, but how big, how fast, how heavy in every day examples was and still is pretty much lost to me. But – while somebody telling me an object weighs 145 grams means nothing to me without mental gymnastics in terms of mental image and heft, but tell me it weighs about 5 oz – bingo – it’s a baseball.
    We had a revolution 248 years ago, and we still don’t want no metric rulers.

  • Nomen Nescio says:
    July 26, 2024 at 7:59 am

    Calculate using metric. Then convert the results to English units for a sanity check.
    No, that 22LR bullet did not drop 3.6 miles at 100 yards.

    • Veeshir says:
      July 26, 2024 at 4:49 pm

      In school I was the only one to get one problem correct.
      We all made the same mistake, not taking a square root at the end.
      I was the only one to convert m/s into MPH and realize a roller coaster isn’t going to go 6400mph.

      • dick not quite dead white guy says:
        July 26, 2024 at 5:08 pm

        I thought our biggest fear, the biggest danger to our carriers was Chinese hypersonic roller coasters.

  • Igor says:
    July 31, 2024 at 3:57 am

    If we go metric (and, technically speaking, we have) it’ll make it easier for the Chinese to copy our weapons systems…
    Just sayin’

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