Metric system in Elite
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Sky did not fall, but actually things already fell out of the sky due to this..
On earth as well as on mars.. RIPYou sure about this? SI is about units, didn't know (and cannot find) they dictate notation... this is part of national and international other standards, so if anything, they had to allow both. Units and notation in the end are totally different topics?
Which is what is wrong with SI standards.
Rather than adopting one or other of the conventions which already exist, they've chosen a third just as confused method.
Is the number from Ziggy's example
"1 million" or "1" followed by "000" and then "000.00".
A space is used in all writing to signify a break between one word and another. So it is completely unclear. Clearly!?
The standard recommends the use of a thin space as a separator, to help keep large numbers more "together" and differentiate it from being separate groups of numbers.
1 000 000 instead of
1 000 000
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Or if you are in India 10,00,000. That's ten lakh to the lay person.
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Sky did not fall, but actually things already fell out of the sky due to this..
Were they made by yanks? If so, then thats the mystery solved ^
Personally, I'm a fan of THE REGISTER's units. They are very visual.
Lengths are measured in Linguinies, London Busses and Brontosauruses.
Areas are measured in Football pitches, Waleses and Belgiums. With SI variants such as Miliwales and Nanowales.
Volumes are measured in Walnuts "Bulgarian Airbags" (C-cup. Think Fun Spice) "Bulgarian Funbags" (Think Jordan) and "Olympic Swimming Pools"
Temperature is measured in Hiltons.
Weights are measured in Kardashian "Jubs," (micro, mili, kilo and megajubs are recognised variants) "Adult Badgers" and "Great White Sharks."
Speeds are measure relative to the "maximum velocity of sheep in a vacuum."
Massive forces are measured in the unreasonably large unit called "Norrises."
Here's the full REG "standard" UNIT converter
I ninja'd you with that 6 pages ago, reply #54, but it didn't get much of a reaction. They're all heathens round here you know - you can never have too much El Reg
Not sure what the standard unit of ED commentards would be or what their collective noun is... A salt cellar perhaps?I ninja'd you with that 6 pages ago, reply #54, but it didn't get much of a reaction. They're all heathens round here you know - you can never have too much El Reg
El Reg is the website I've read for the longest. I started reading it in 1995. Still visit most days... They had a dry spell a few years back but I still love their irreverent humour mixed in expertly without (in most cases) taking away from the story.
I still think them measuring lengths in European Linquinies, boiled, at sea level was one of the most Pythonesque things they did.
I am volunteering to broker a deal!
If the UK (and other violators) will agree to drive on the proper side of the road, the U.S (and other Luddites) will adopt the metric system.
What do you say?
I don't see the problem with driving on the wrong side of the road. Whenever I need to do it, my brain fully adjusts before the first junction; though I'll admit that it took a few extra minutes before I stopped reaching into the door pocket to change gear.
Let's face it, if you can't tell your left from your right, you really should be locked up for attempting to drive on public roads.
I'm all for changing to driving on the right but it's not as simple as just changing. You have to repaint every road marking in the country, replace every sign and traffic signal at every junction, change the length of every motorway sliproad and exit ramp, rebuild almost every multi-lane junction - especially those massive, raised intersections on motorways (which were each muli-million, multi-year construction projects), scrap every vehicle that has a kerbside door and replace it for one with a door on the other side, and of course deal with a huge increase in the number of accidents because of the inevitable confusion during the transition period, as well as the fact that drivers can't easily judge how close their offside wheel is to the oncoming traffic.
Transport engineers and economists estimated (back in the 1990's) that switching the UK to right-hand drive would take 20 years and cost around half the annual GDP, enough to economically cripple the country for decades - It even makes Brexit look economically-viable.
Look at it this way; A single motorway junction costs from £50M-750M depending on scale and complexity. Just redoing the 2000 motorway junctions (the easiest 10% of the road network due to the extremely low number of junctions per km) would cost the UK somewhere between £100Bn and £1.5trillion. So the easiest 10% of the roads would be catastrophically expensive, even if the UK wasn't already massively in debt with a still-rising deficit growth rate (thanks, Brexit!)
Let's face it, if you can't tell your left from your right, you really should be locked up for attempting to drive on public roads.
I'm all for changing to driving on the right but it's not as simple as just changing. You have to repaint every road marking in the country, replace every sign and traffic signal at every junction, change the length of every motorway sliproad and exit ramp, rebuild almost every multi-lane junction - especially those massive, raised intersections on motorways (which were each muli-million, multi-year construction projects), scrap every vehicle that has a kerbside door and replace it for one with a door on the other side, and of course deal with a huge increase in the number of accidents because of the inevitable confusion during the transition period, as well as the fact that drivers can't easily judge how close their offside wheel is to the oncoming traffic.
Transport engineers and economists estimated (back in the 1990's) that switching the UK to right-hand drive would take 20 years and cost around half the annual GDP, enough to economically cripple the country for decades - It even makes Brexit look economically-viable.
Look at it this way; A single motorway junction costs from £50M-750M depending on scale and complexity. Just redoing the 2000 motorway junctions (the easiest 10% of the road network due to the extremely low number of junctions per km) would cost the UK somewhere between £100Bn and £1.5trillion. So the easiest 10% of the roads would be catastrophically expensive, even if the UK wasn't already massively in debt with a still-rising deficit growth rate (thanks, Brexit!)
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.....and Hubble. I just love NASA, they spend billions of the the Tax dollars and practically screw up everything they do.
Looks like I registered my account there back in 2006, but I've been reading it for a lot longer than that. Not as far back as 1995 though
It's not as good as it used to be, but still required daily reading. I think it got bought by a US company? I miss Lewis Page and Andrew Orlowski too, but hey nothing stays the same... Except for debates about grind in ED ofc.
Can you give me some more examples of their accidents?
I am not sure if you are being honest, or sarcastic?
Honest but I'll be clear, nobody in the rocket science bussiness is particularly good at avoiding accidents (just look at SpaceX for example) so please be sure to publish measure related accidents.
The REAL fundamental unit of distance: the brewski.
Defined as the minimum distance from one pub to another at which both pubs will still be in existence and making a profit a hundred years later.
Note: When making measurements to determine this distance be sure to multiply the average minumum distance measured by the number of locally feuding populations. Example measurements taken in overlapping regions such as Everton/Liverpool, United/City, Rangers/Celtic are appended for reference. Note also that extreme concentrations of the exotic dark material "crap we have to deal with on a daily basis" will cause shrinkage of space/time and result in lower observed local measurements.
Defined as the minimum distance from one pub to another at which both pubs will still be in existence and making a profit a hundred years later.
Note: When making measurements to determine this distance be sure to multiply the average minumum distance measured by the number of locally feuding populations. Example measurements taken in overlapping regions such as Everton/Liverpool, United/City, Rangers/Celtic are appended for reference. Note also that extreme concentrations of the exotic dark material "crap we have to deal with on a daily basis" will cause shrinkage of space/time and result in lower observed local measurements.
Challenger: Blew apart because the 'O' rings failed. This was predicted, but 'funding, politics and NASAs ego and complacency', launched the ship any way.
Columbia: Burned up on re-entry; again, due to complacency.
WRONG side of the road!!!? I think not. Historically it was the correct way up, until that notorious bossy boots Napoleon started throwing his weight around.