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Sagebrush posted:orbital altitude is in kilometers, altitude above ground is in feet, and distance down range is in nautical miles. Yeah I think it's just something weird with that diagram, I'd love to know the source (and why kilometres is abbreviated incorrectly). As far as I'm aware everything distance in Apollo was done in feet, feet/sec, and nautical miles. Flipped through the entire flight plan and the only metric unit in there is the second. That said I strongly support the adoption of moon miles and moon meters.
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Cojawfee posted:Sorry to disappoint, but as far as I know, there is no physical meter. The physical kilogram is already a big poo poo show. With how materials expand and contract under certain conditions, there's no way to have an object be the meter. It's only defined by how far light travels in a second. And a second is defined by however many oscillations of certain elements such as a cesium ion. There is a prototype metre and it was the official standard till 1960. There were specifications for the conditions under which comparisons to it were to be made, which included where to place supports under it to minimise deflection.
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My favourite video about measuring stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58
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This is all why I suck at Keebler Space Project
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Squee posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_sQ3cgQvR0 Oh boy thats a pro click!
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Cojawfee posted:Sorry to disappoint, but as far as I know, there is no physical meter. The physical kilogram is already a big poo poo show. With how materials expand and contract under certain conditions, there's no way to have an object be the meter. It's only defined by how far light travels in a second. And a second is defined by however many oscillations of certain elements such as a cesium ion. there is a physical meter. it's a relic now that the meter is defined by the speed of light, but the metric system was invented well before the speed of light was measured with any accuracy. the meter prototype is a platinum-iridium bar and, as with the prototype kilograms, there was one central standard in paris and many copies in national laboratories around the world. here are the best photos I can find; it's surprisingly awkward to photograph as its profile is 16mm on a side but it is 1.000000000000000000 meters long. awkward  
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On the topic of invisible flames, I didn't see this video linked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pEoJ5OK3hE The narrator seems to think the audience will have difficulty wrapping their heads around the idea of invisible flames, for some reason
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Deteriorata posted:The US has been officially metric for decades. At least since the 60s, probably earlier. It's always just been a formality, though, as there has never been any programs or efforts to officially convert. Industry has been extremely reluctant to convert as everything is in imperial dimensions and they have rebuild everything to change over to metric measurements. I work for a book printer and I can only imagine the shitshow it would be if we ever tried to convert over to metric book sizes. People already flip their lids when they buy a book that's not the size they expect because the creator switched to a cheaper size to save money. No amount of "it's literally half the price it was before" satisfies people whose book series on the bookshelves now do not line up perfectly. And, for the record, I know. Seriously don't point out how dumb this is, I know. Everyone except the end customer knows. And on the flip side, we have a bunch of customers who stick with more expensive sizes for certain books just to avoid that headache, even if they want to get a cheaper (and higher margin to boot) product to sell, and we want them to go with the cheaper product because it's a ton more efficient to have all our business at a set sizes vs. an assorted 2% at hosed up different sizes because someone decided decades ago that either bigger is better or some weird smaller size was "cute" and now no one wants to kick the hornet's nest. I can't count how many times I've heard Sales and the creators commiserate about not having everything at regular sizes. No way we will ever be able to make that switch short of some literal actual law with teeth if we don't make the switch. That said, it would be really, really nice to convert over to the metric sizes, since no matter what size the actual book is (A4, A5, etc.) they're all the same aspect ratio. That'd save the Art department a crapload of time every year as they deal with the subtle ways that a design fucks up when you alter the aspect ratio juuuuust enough for it to be noticeable. It's shocking how much of a difference that hosed up scaling can make even to a non-designer like me. Like, I can look at the design and it'll hit something in my brain that says "yeah, that's just not right" and then they'll show me the design at the original aspect ratio and it all clicks into place what's wrong.
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I used to produce items for a multimillion dollar outfit who was partially funded by the state and we never used rulers instead we used measurements like "one finger, two fingers, half hand" it was a sweat shop. however we operated in the USA for a $10m+ entity that took US gov't $
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I work in aerospace instrument calibration and 99% of our work is inch pounds and kips. I've done ONE system in newtons after five years in this role.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:I work in aerospace instrument calibration and 99% of our work is inch pounds and kips. I love kips, they're like "yes, it's important to have a measurement for something that is rooted in base ten, BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO USE THE OBVIOUS ONES gently caress YOU" Should be 1024 pounds-force for maximum fuckery imo
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Good thing that ship was there, probably a lot cheaper to write it off than repair that pier.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/huIqo80.gifv
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Memento posted:Good thing that ship was there, probably a lot cheaper to write it off than repair that pier. Yeah, it's more than a pier too, a full TLO with dual conveyors by the looks of it.
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Assuming it's the same guy he then went on to be Captain Kirk's stunt double in the original star trek. Also, there is something deeply unnerving about this.
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HardDiskD posted:This kills the ship
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Any ideas as to what the ship which was crushed was? It's sitting very high in the water.
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Pile Of Garbage posted:Any ideas as to what the ship which was crushed was? It's sitting very high in the water. Going off of the timestamp I think https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2010/mair/279-mo-2010-008.aspx this is this collision in the gif. Ship was the Apollo S, a fishing vessel, which was thankfully unmanned at the time of the collision. e:  Here's a better picture of the Apollo before it sank, I don't think it's riding that high in actuality, the paint scheme and camera angle's just kinda deceptive.
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Doctor Zaius posted:Going off of the timestamp I think https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2010/mair/279-mo-2010-008.aspx this is this collision in the gif. Ship was the Apollo S, a fishing vessel, which was thankfully unmanned at the time of the collision. Oh poo poo that was in SA!? I thought the surroundings looked very Aussie, also reminded me of the piers at Dampier here in WA.
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The small ship is actually pretty large, 47 meters long, and for being worth $17 million may not have worked great as a bumper for the jetty.
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Creepy, the ground shouldn't be bubbling like that. I keep expecting Egg Shen to attack it with something from his Six-Demon Bag and yell "YOU WILL COME OUT NO MORE!"
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Uthor posted:I'm about to go check all my tape measures. But what if they are all wrong? I have a couple of rulers and three sets of calipers, but how can I trust them? no need for all that https://www.amazon.com/Mitutoyo-Steel-Rectangular-Block-Metric/dp/B006U10HYC?th=1&psc=1
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Nov 15, 2020 18:58
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Someone should write a book on avoiding huge piers
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Jet Jaguar posted:Creepy, the ground shouldn't be bubbling like that. https://i.imgur.com/xn5AXiB.mp4
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If a shave and a haircut is two bits, what’s this worth?
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Platystemon posted:If a shave and a haircut is two bits, what’s this worth? one buck
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Platystemon posted:If a shave and a haircut is two bits, what’s this worth? It'll be a bit more dear.
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That's as good as an excuse as any to hang out in a pillow fort the rest of the day.
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Cojawfee posted:Sorry to disappoint, but as far as I know, there is no physical meter. The physical kilogram is already a big poo poo show. With how materials expand and contract under certain conditions, there's no way to have an object be the meter. It's only defined by how far light travels in a second. And a second is defined by however many oscillations of certain elements such as a cesium ion. Grandpa Simpson was right, it is the tool of the devil. Speaking of Granddads, I'm from Canada which went metric several decades ago, but in the 80s, when I was a kid, if me, my brothers or cousins were at the grand parents house, and causing poo poo, which we often did, my grandmother would yell for grand dad to get "the yard stick" (it was never a switch). My granddad was old school it was always a yard stick, never a meter stick. All that fear and punishment concentrated into three fewer inches. 4:20 smoke piers errday!
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Dysgenesis posted:Also, there is something deeply unnerving about this. relax, he just took a wrong turn at albukoike
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Nov 15, 2020 20:37
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Quick, ground pound it to get a power moon!
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Communist Bear posted:What is happening here? The ground is moving, duh.
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:The ground is moving, duh. 
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Communist Bear posted:What is happening here? Mother Nature is snoring.
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Communist Bear posted:What is happening here? I certainly didn't bury a body there, detective.
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