Isn't it about time U.S. went metric?

[Kev]

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So Frank, returning the thread back to drinking, I estimate that a Cubit would be approx. the same height as a Rehoboam Champagne Bottle which contains 4.5 litres.  [smile]
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http://www.champagne.sparklingdirect.co.uk/champagne_bottle_sizes.asp

[member=20326]SittingElf[/member]

Edit: I am sure that the mathematical genius who just previously posted will shortly either confirm or discredit my estimation!  [big grin]

[member=13058]Kev[/member]

Well Kev?  [popcorn] [popcorn] [popcorn]

[member=19746]Untidy Shop[/member]

Can't speak for Kev, but based on one of your recent posts, I imagine you are probably right, because it's obvious you were around when Noah was building his ark and trying to find a pair of Pterodactyls to add to the menage!! [big grin] [big grin]  You might have even been an apprentice on the Ark! [tongue]

Frank

[size=13pt]Yep, me and Tinker were certainly the apprentices; he being older was final year. As I recall we had 66 boxes containing various hand tools with green handles!  [big grin]

[member=20326]SittingElf[/member]  [member=550]Tinker[/member]

@ Untidy Shop 
Hey, I was the architect on that job. I was way ahead of all of you.
Tinker

Didn't know the ark was made of cement blocks!

As a matter of fact, it was.  We used epoch-se mortar to hold the blocks together.  :
Tinker

The fate of those left behind was certainly cemented.

 

[rmwarren]

And, at the risk of quoting myself, why the heck are American Bourbon's in 750 ML bottles?

Now there's a question to keep me up at night...

RMW

The US liquor industry converted to metric in the late seventies.  At that time they went from some 11 sizes to about 5 (give or take) . The fifth (of a gallon) became 750ml. The quart became a liter, the pint became 500 ml, half pint became 250 ml, and half gallon became 1.75 liter.

Vijay

Phew! Now I can sleep tonight.

Thanks [member=163]vkumar[/member]

RMW

PS - The late 70's was well before I was partaking, even illegally...

PPS - Okay, not well before...

[big grin]

 

[Tinker]

I had a neighbor way back when i was in HS who liked to imbibe just a bit.  His MD told him he had to quit drinking so much alcohol.  He told my mom that he did cut back a lot.

"I cut back from a quart of Scotch a day to a fifth." he told her.
Tinker

 

[rmwarren]

I'm tired of the Imperial vs Metric arguments.

I've decided to ignore those systems and start measuring in Cubits.  It worked just fine for Noah building his ark, so it should be good for me too! [tongue] [big grin]

Frank

P.S.  1 cubit = 45.72 cm
[popcorn] [popcorn]

Wrong! My cubit = ~510mm...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit

Dontcha love Google, Wikipedia and Siri? Today at lunch w/ a client we asked her (Siri) who played Elliott Ness in the original Untouchables (Robert Stack) and now I won't have to wake from a sound sleep tonight and yell out his name. Actually, we were talking about the movie Airplane! but we tend to digress on our best days.

RMW

 

[rmwarren]

I had a neighbor way back when i was in HS who liked to imbibe just a bit.  His MD told him he had to quit drinking so much alcohol.  He told my mom that he did cut back a lot.

"I cut back from a quart of Scotch a day to a fifth." he told her.
Tinker

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[big grin]

 

[rmwarren]

Let's get back to a very good point, the map Shane showed us.
I think that says it all.

Truth be told this topic had been done to death a dozen times ... like that guys? ... I used a dozen [wink]

It's an entertaining distraction that sometimes a few take too seriously.

Some people get set in their ways and don't like change ... the U.S. doesn't have a monopoly on that condition. Don't start me on the French [wink]

Give it fifty years ... the world will be metric, a lot of the current FOG members will have shuffled, cars will drive themselves (or whatever the care equivalent is) and the entire left/right drive thing will be moot. It's likely in a few decades that our basis for commerce will have completely evolved and I predict that JMB will have built a woodworking space state out of mahogany and be working from earth orbit.

It's also likely by then that such things as direct conversation is no longer the common mode and we communicate through interpretive devices that deal with ambiguity and preference (imagine talking to a person in China about inches and their hearing you in realtime Mandarin with measurements in millimetres) - that could be less than ten years, probably bio implants in 50 years doing far more!

Probably still no hover board though [mad]

[member=13058]Kev[/member] I have to admit that I converted to Metric sometime after buying my TS55/MFT3, and as the son of an old-time carpenter that was a tough hurdle. I even do all my design in metric now and the little gadgets I sell use metric hardware. All my Woodpecker's OTT tools are metric.

And I still look at something and think "that's about 4 inches, so call it 100MM" or " "that measures 100MM so it's about 4"...  [doh]

Not sure if it is humanly possible to make the shift in less than 2-3 generations of concentrated effort.

RMW

 

[Kev]

I'm tired of the Imperial vs Metric arguments.

I've decided to ignore those systems and start measuring in Cubits.  It worked just fine for Noah building his ark, so it should be good for me too! [tongue] [big grin]

Frank

P.S.  1 cubit = 45.72 cm
[popcorn] [popcorn]

Wrong! My cubit = ~510mm...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit

Dontcha love Google, Wikipedia and Siri? Today at lunch w/ a client we asked her (Siri) who played Elliott Ness in the original Untouchables (Robert Stack) and now I won't have to wake from a sound sleep tonight and yell out his name. Actually, we were talking about the movie Airplane! but we tend to digress on our best days.

RMW

That's going to screw my parsec calc by about a third of a light year  [sad]

 

[rmwarren]

I'm tired of the Imperial vs Metric arguments.

I've decided to ignore those systems and start measuring in Cubits.  It worked just fine for Noah building his ark, so it should be good for me too! [tongue] [big grin]

Frank

P.S.  1 cubit = 45.72 cm
[popcorn] [popcorn]

Wrong! My cubit = ~510mm...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit

Dontcha love Google, Wikipedia and Siri? Today at lunch w/ a client we asked her (Siri) who played Elliott Ness in the original Untouchables (Robert Stack) and now I won't have to wake from a sound sleep tonight and yell out his name. Actually, we were talking about the movie Airplane! but we tend to digress on our best days.

RMW

That's going to screw my parsec calc by about a third of a light year  [sad]

[member=13058]Kev[/member] I avoid text-ish acronyms like the plague but, for you, LOL!

Gotta love that we can jabber back and forth from 2 continents with only minutes between posts. 20:31 here on 6/10, and I am signing off to go enjoy a cigar out in the shed/shop.

RMW

 

[GPowers]

You're just in the wrong industry.  The medical industry has been using metric for years.

 

[Stephen B]

Let's get. . . .

Truth be told this topic . . . . . . . .  bly bio implants in 50 years doing far more!
Probably still no hover board though [mad]

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You think!  [smile]



http://www.businessinsider.com.au/hendo-hoverboard-maker-wants-to-hover-your-house-in-an-earthquake-2015-6

[member=13058]Kev[/member]

 

[WPeters]

Only after a whole lot of Chimays' do I believe a pair of penguins walked all the way from Antarctica to the Middle East to board Noah's ark. Dunno how many parsecs that is exactly, but it must be quite a few.

I did a little digging, no pun intended [big grin]....as baffling as those traveling penquins...how did the sea fossils end up in the Himalayas or 29,029 feet (8,848 m) [wink]  above sea level?
https://answersingenesis.org/fossils/fossil-record/high-dry-sea-creatures/https://answersingenesis.org/animal-behavior/migration/how-did-animals-spread-from-where-ark-landed/

Only after a whole lot of Chimays' do I believe a pair of penguins walked all the way from Antarctica to the Middle East to board Noah's ark. Dunno how many parsecs that is exactly, but it must be quite a few.

A nice glass of Westmalle Tripel will help with Noah's headcount (17 species of penguin according to Google) [member=5277]Alex[/member]  [wink]

I guess he just needed to take the "granddaddy penguins"  [smile]..https://answersingenesis.org/creation-science/baraminology/what-are-kinds-in-genesis/  Maybe the "Kinds" and "species" discussions is like the Metric and Imperial???  On that note, I think a big challenge for me would be thinking and building in Metric and then communicating with clients and contracters in Imperial....

 

[Kevin McConville]

You're just in the wrong industry.  The medical industry has been using metric for years.

Auto production in North America has been metric for 25 years already

 

[WastedP]

Auto production in North America has been metric for 25 years already

Sort of.  I had a '94 Grand Cherokee that inexplicably had standard and metric fasteners, with no real rhyme or reason to their distribution throughout the vehicle.

 

[Sparktrician]

Auto production in North America has been metric for 25 years already

Sort of.  I had a '94 Grand Cherokee that inexplicably had standard and metric fasteners, with no real rhyme or reason to their distribution throughout the vehicle.

My '98 Expedition was the same way.  The engine was made in Windsor, Ontario, and totally metric, but other parts weren't. 

 

[bkharman]

Auto production in North America has been metric for 25 years already

Sort of.  I had a '94 Grand Cherokee that inexplicably had standard and metric fasteners, with no real rhyme or reason to their distribution throughout the vehicle.

My '98 Expedition was the same way.  The engine was made in Windsor, Ontario, and totally metric, but other parts weren't.

And meanwhile... Across the river...

 

[Kevin McConville]

Automotive production is a special breed. There has developed such complications when changing/updating models that changes can take a while as the change can affect many different vehicles and getting all those vehicle teams to agree on changes is a challenge. The desire to offer the consumer all the different choices in the NA market made design and production of the Detroit based cars unwieldy and the imports with far fewer platforms were able to react far faster to changes and ate our proverbial lunch.

The half metric half imperial cars were symptomatic of this

 

[Holmz]

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Gotta love that we can jabber back and forth from 2 continents with only minutes between posts. 20:31 here on 6/10, and I am signing off to go enjoy a cigar out in the shed/shop.

RMW

Well most other places it is 10/6... "the 10th of the 6th", "10 Jun or 10/6/2015.

That is not exactly metric, but close enough.

 

[rmwarren]

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Gotta love that we can jabber back and forth from 2 continents with only minutes between posts. 20:31 here on 6/10, and I am signing off to go enjoy a cigar out in the shed/shop.

RMW

Well most other places it is 10/6... "the 10th of the 6th", "10 Jun or 10/6/2015.

That is not exactly metric, but close enough.

That's just cuz you guys are upside down...  [poke]

RMW

 

[Sparktrician]

Automotive production is a special breed. There has developed such complications when changing/updating models that changes can take a while as the change can affect many different vehicles and getting all those vehicle teams to agree on changes is a challenge. The desire to offer the consumer all the different choices in the NA market made design and production of the Detroit based cars unwieldy and the imports with far fewer platforms were able to react far faster to changes and ate our proverbial lunch.

The half metric half imperial cars were symptomatic of this

Speaking of half-and-half cars, back in the early 70s, I worked for the local phone company installing and repairing data communications facilities and equipment.  The garage from which I worked also housed the mobile telephone shop that installed what were known as KBQ phones in cars and trucks, long before cell phones.  One night there was a fleet of cars from the DC government waiting to have phones installed.  I was looking at one in particular that, from the front, just didn't look right.  I walked along the right side and noted the Ford Granada emblem and trim.  Around back, I noted that the car had two different taillights.  Walking by the left side, it had the Mercury Monarch emblem and trim.  Back to the front, and the difference was more apparent - two different style headlight bezels.  So much for Ford's quality control in the 70s!!!  [crying] 

 

[Davej]

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Gotta love that we can jabber back and forth from 2 continents with only minutes between posts. 20:31 here on 6/10, and I am signing off to go enjoy a cigar out in the shed/shop.

RMW

Well most other places it is 10/6... "the 10th of the 6th", "10 Jun or 10/6/2015.

That is not exactly metric, but close enough.

That's just cuz you guys are upside down...  [poke]

RMW

And you guys are back to front.  [big grin]