Metric system in Elite
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I really like this image, puts things in perspective: https://i.imgur.com/fhxkMtn.jpg
Bonus points if you can name those two countries in asia and africa without looking them up.
Bonus points if you can name those two countries in asia and africa without looking them up.
Hello,
the USA is a technical mess:
Miles, Feet and 3/7 of an inch and i'm 5'9" tall [big grin]
Acre,
Pound
Ounze
Fahrenheit
Gallon = 231 inch³ [down]
Pint
PSI (Pound-force per square inch)
my goodness - what a stupid system!
110 Volt
i had to deal a lot with that idiotic stuff, when i was setting up grinders in the USA. I mean real grinders - you know that kind of machinery, that makes out of a piece of steel an advanced highly precise part.
It needed some days to catch up with that system. But once figuered out it was handable but always feeled odd and it looked really stupid if you look into a blueprint of a part to grind and see numbers like 3 5/11 inch wide [woah]
Btw: Anybody seems to think about the USA as a technical highly developed country, but take a look at the middle of the country, somewhere in Arizona or Montana or South Dakota or Ohio or Indiana outside of the bigger cities (and even in the cities)...
You will see a lousy technical infrastructure, at the technical state of the 20ies (at its best) of the last century.
the USA is a technical mess:
Miles, Feet and 3/7 of an inch and i'm 5'9" tall [big grin]
Acre,
Pound
Ounze
Fahrenheit
Gallon = 231 inch³ [down]
Pint
PSI (Pound-force per square inch)
my goodness - what a stupid system!
110 Volt
i had to deal a lot with that idiotic stuff, when i was setting up grinders in the USA. I mean real grinders - you know that kind of machinery, that makes out of a piece of steel an advanced highly precise part.
It needed some days to catch up with that system. But once figuered out it was handable but always feeled odd and it looked really stupid if you look into a blueprint of a part to grind and see numbers like 3 5/11 inch wide [woah]
Btw: Anybody seems to think about the USA as a technical highly developed country, but take a look at the middle of the country, somewhere in Arizona or Montana or South Dakota or Ohio or Indiana outside of the bigger cities (and even in the cities)...
You will see a lousy technical infrastructure, at the technical state of the 20ies (at its best) of the last century.
verminstar
Banned
Thats true...theres exactly 28 grams in an ounce...why I know this is should probably be left unsaid ^
The one thing they got right was using power of two subdivisions (went wrong using them on Inches, but can't win them all), and then they stopped for a moment and screwed it up with thousandths 
verminstar
Banned
Blaim it to onionhead?
How dare ye even suggest such a thing...Im a really good boy would never do anything illegal...
And if ye believe that, ye believe anything haha ^
Yes you're right. We have stall holders in the UK who hum the National Anthem as they measure their jellied eels in "good British Pounds!"
Engineers use Metric.
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At this point in time there's only three countries that haven't gone metric... the US, Burma, and Liberia... and your science communities such as NASA -do- use metric. Odds are pretty damn good that sometime in the next 12 centuries the rest of you lot will figure out how to divide by ten and adopt it.
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I think we should adopt a new set of distances based on the distance between say a star and a nearby space station...
The Hutton - adopting this will make people start to believe the galaxy is a lot smaller than it really is eg. "pah Earth is only about a micro Hutton from Sol, I can get there in no time"
The Hutton - adopting this will make people start to believe the galaxy is a lot smaller than it really is eg. "pah Earth is only about a micro Hutton from Sol, I can get there in no time"
The cubit.......though it would have to be in kilocubits!
Just thought I would throw in the fact that Marine and Aviation still use nautical miles and knots. Nautical mile being the distance of one minute of longitude and knot being one nautical mile per hour. Not very useful in space but it could be on a planet if "knot" was variable depending on the size of the planet.
I propose the Kessel Run as a base unit. Not quite sure for what though
verminstar
Banned
Just on that note...few years back we had market traders intentionally using the old imperial systems...as a form of defiance against the EU who was trying to force the metric system. To this day, some still use imperial because thats what the customers prefer and many will give ye the choice between the two systems. And thats UK as well so its not as universally accepted as some seem to think ^
Suddenly 1ly = 4.8ish Huttons...
rootsrat
Volunteer Moderator
I learned something new today, thanks!
But reassuringly, even in EDs bleak dystopia beer is still pulled in pints.
Miles and gallons I can wrap my head around. Fahrenheit degrees are the spawn of hell OTOH.
Best system of measurement is h_bar = c = k_b = 1. Everything in powers of GeV is so convenient...
Best system of measurement is h_bar = c = k_b = 1. Everything in powers of GeV is so convenient...
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or 48000 Hut-kgs ...
germany sgot a minor issue with counting, even so failing has terrible impact
officially its > thousands, mils, milliards, billions, billiards ... (check here)
its no mystery to me why german banks go down ...
It's called "long scale". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scalesgermany sgot a minor issue with counting, even so failing has terrible impact
officially its > thousands, mils, milliards, billions, billiards ... (check here)