<darsie>
"If a drop of water happened to fall on your head, you had to be decontaminated for a long time, since the drop contained tens of thousands of beta particles."
<Fluburtur>
they were not nuclear scientist
<darsie>
mhm
<darsie>
An attempt to eliminate the leak was made by pouring in 20 sacks of flour, thus filling the cracks with dough.
<darsie>
unberlievable
<darsie>
unbelievable
<Eddi|zuHause>
"About 700,000 tonnes (770,000 tons)" <-- so which one is which?
<darsie>
ton is metric, I think.
<Eddi|zuHause>
or tonnes?
<Eddi|zuHause>
english is weird.
<Eddi|zuHause>
and this imperial stuff is even weirder
<Eddi|zuHause>
can't we kill it with fire?
<Eddi|zuHause>
Make Wikipedia Metric Again
<Fluburtur>
im tempted to sign on wikipedia and change all the pages I read to metrci but I would probably be banned quickly
<Mat2ch>
Yesterday I learnt about quarts.
<Mat2ch>
And yes it's bad.
<Eddi|zuHause>
i could somewhat understand using imperial if the source material is imperial (like, historical british sources, or american sources)
<Eddi|zuHause>
but this is about a russian/soviet incident, and i very much doubt that the source material on those is imperial
<Judge_Dedd>
tonne is metric
<Judge_Dedd>
Ton is imperial
<Fluburtur>
the worse is peoples that mix imperial in metric in the same text to talk about the same thing
<Fluburtur>
like "3 inch wide and 5mm thick"
<Fluburtur>
just no
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<Judge_Dedd>
Isn't imperial the international standard in some settings? E.g. altitude is usually feet, no?
<Fluburtur>
for boats and aerial travel yeah
<Fluburtur>
but metric is usually built in those systems as well
<JVFoxy>
seems the use meters here (western Canada) for altitude...
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<Judge_Dedd>
Boats?
<Fluburtur>
knots for speed and such
<Eddi|zuHause>
those are nautical miles, not imperial miles
<JVFoxy>
but also feet... what I find weird is, they use MPH for ultralights rather that the usual knots
<Judge_Dedd>
Didn't know that counted as "imperial"
<Judge_Dedd>
I've always referred to that as "nautical"
<Eddi|zuHause>
they're almost definitely different things
<Althego>
scott
<Althego>
nautical miles kind of still make sense
<JVFoxy>
ughs.. don't get me on about weights... is it a long or short ton/tonne... is it an imperial or metric ton... c.c;
<Althego>
imperial miles are pointless
<Fluburtur>
there is two kinds of imperial now
<Althego>
only 2?
<JVFoxy>
this, that.. .and who gives a flip?
<Eddi|zuHause>
i know like 10 completely different definitions of "mile"
<Althego>
so what does the scott say? ... about raptor engine
<JVFoxy>
well for me.. 1 mile = 1.6km... don't ask me that in feet, inches, paces.. ect..
<Althego>
yes i usually use 1.6 or even 1.5 for quick calc
<Eddi|zuHause>
there's a "german mile", which nobody really remembers anymore, which is 7.5km
<JVFoxy>
its just a smidge over 1.6, doesn't really make much a difference unless you dealing with insane distances
<Althego>
lol
<Althego>
who remembers how many feet are in a mile?
<JVFoxy>
1200 give or take?
<Judge_Dedd>
True story: Someone walked into a UK shop to buy some rope, and asked for X metres, or yards, whichever you prefer. The shopkeeper replied "It's 50p per fathom. How much do you want?"
<Eddi|zuHause>
"1 miles" being "2 hours at walking speed"
<JVFoxy>
oh.. 5280.. -pokes google
<Althego>
anyway i dont bother remembering that
<Judge_Dedd>
;wa mile to km
<JVFoxy>
oddly.. I know 1 fathom is 6feet...
<Althego>
there were some other tricks, where i could relatively easily convert some imperial speeds, but i forgot about them :)
<JVFoxy>
<- nerd kid back in the day.. also dad had a boat
<Judge_Dedd>
Althego, 2.5 cm -> 1 in
<Eddi|zuHause>
"fathom" is how wide you can spread your arms?
<Judge_Dedd>
12 in = 30 cm
<Fluburtur>
1" is 2.54cm exactly
<Eddi|zuHause>
(or the circumferance of an object you can grab)
<Fluburtur>
I know that because my mechanics teacher was annoyed by imperial size for screws
<Eddi|zuHause>
i know the 2.54 figure, because WordPerfect used to have margins default to that value
<JVFoxy>
what I don't get is... why Fahrenheit? not only they work on a different scale, its also shifted 32c off....
<Althego>
i think one such trick was 1 m/s is about 200 feet per minute
<Fluburtur>
the only moment farheneit is at like -40
<Fluburtur>
I forgot several words
<Althego>
and fqahrenheit is wrong too
<Althego>
since one ideea was that a human should be 100 deg
<Fluburtur>
"farhenheit is more natural for humans"
<Eddi|zuHause>
(i'm not sure how that tradition translates into other countries)
<Althego>
i havent seen anything like it
<Eddi|zuHause>
so, according to this (probably poorly researched) article, the tradition of the giant bag of candy on the first day of school originated around saxony and can be traced back to at least 1810, and spread throughout germany in the 20th century
<Eddi|zuHause>
partially due to a childrens book from the 1850s