Mysterious Disappearances

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Post by notjarvis »

History wrote:QUOTE (History @ Nov 10 2010, 10:23 AM) No no! This needs to develop into a discussion of weather the metric system or the inch-pound system is better.

Personaly I am convinced that the metric system makes no sense what so ever and I am prepared to back it by quoting one of my heroes:

"You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs."
―Han Solo

From this we can clearly see that a parsec is a measure of time and not of distance as the metric system foolishly claims!
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A parsec IS a unit of distance, hans solo was able to cut it down to 12 simply by skirting a black hole cluster and shortening the route.

... I'm getting a sense of deja vu here.
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Cookie Monster wrote:QUOTE (Cookie Monster @ Nov 10 2010, 08:36 AM) A parsec IS a unit of distance, hans solo was able to cut it down to 12 simply by skirting a black hole cluster and shortening the route.
Give this man a medal.

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Post by MrChaos »

If you are handicapped in your thinking to the point you claim one unit is better then another:


Squirrels drinking gin make small frictional bearings cruisilinked


I believe this ends the debate except for those with brains bigger then a gebril with a skin condition but smaller then those of tantric pretzels
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MrChaos wrote:QUOTE (MrChaos @ Nov 10 2010, 08:18 PM) If you are handicapped in your thinking to the point you claim one unit is better then another:


Squirrels drinking gin make small frictional bearings cruisilinked


I believe this ends the debate except for those with brains bigger then a gebril with a skin condition but smaller then those of tantric pretzels
Does anyone remember back when MrC made sense at least 5% of the time?

He's like an American Jimmy at this point.
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Does anyone remember when MrChaos last posted or played?
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Post by Icky »

MrChaos wrote:QUOTE (MrChaos @ Nov 10 2010, 09:18 PM) Does anyone remember when MrChaos last posted or played?
Posted was about 30 seconds ago.

Played was Idunno. :)
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Post by Raveen »

Speaking as an engineer SI units are more convenient than most of the alternatives. However in every field there are conventions that change the usual units (so N/mm^2, kN/m^2/N/cm^2 all in different fields, and yes I know that the first two are equivalent). It's a bloomin' nuisance in all honesty. I also hat the fact that the standard base unit of mass is kg not g. If I were in charge of the metric system it'd have made a hell of a lot more sense than it does.
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Post by History »

MrChaos wrote:QUOTE (MrChaos @ Nov 11 2010, 02:18 AM) If you are handicapped in your thinking to the point you claim one unit is better then another:
<disturbing mental images>
Naturally. However that does mean that systems of units cannot be compared.
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Post by peet »

The Kg is an odd beast. While they have found "independent" definitions of - say - a meter, so everyone can create a length of exact 1 meter, comparing mass with a metal object in France seems not practical.




Raveen wrote:QUOTE (Raveen @ Nov 12 2010, 11:00 AM) Speaking as an engineer SI units are more convenient than most of the alternatives. However in every field there are conventions that change the usual units (so N/mm^2, kN/m^2/N/cm^2 all in different fields, and yes I know that the first two are equivalent). It's a bloomin' nuisance in all honesty. I also hat the fact that the standard base unit of mass is kg not g. If I were in charge of the metric system it'd have made a hell of a lot more sense than it does.
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