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

[Stephen B]

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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]

 

[SittingElf]

[size=13pt]
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]
[size=10pt]
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

 

[Kev]

[size=13pt]
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]
[size=10pt]
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]

Ah yes ... the favourite drinking vessel of the Judea Peoples Front.

Based on the fact that a double magnum is typically only about 30% taller than a normal bottle and holds 4x, I'm going to say you're probably on the money with the height!

 

[WPeters]

Hmmm do you think they are using cubits while building this ark?  www.arkencounter.com

 

[Kev]

Hmmm do you think they are using cubits while building this ark?  www.arkencounter.com

Based on the authentic use of trucks, forklifts and pre-package timber I'd say most certainly [wink]

 

[WPeters]

Hmmm do you think they are using cubits while building this ark?  www.arkencounter.com

Based on the authentic use of trucks, forklifts and pre-package timber I'd say most certainly [wink]

Of course I'd bet if Noah had all that available he would have used it too

 

[Kev]

Hmmm do you think they are using cubits while building this ark?  www.arkencounter.com

Based on the authentic use of trucks, forklifts and pre-package timber I'd say most certainly [wink]

Of course I'd bet if Noah had all that available he would have used it too

Yeh ... bet he had to sharpen his axe a few times!

 

[Wuffles]

Hmmm do you think they are using cubits while building this ark?  www.arkencounter.com

Based on the authentic use of trucks, forklifts and pre-package timber I'd say most certainly [wink]

Of course I'd bet if Noah had all that available he would have used it too

The answer to that lies in their FAQ, and it's hilarious.

Number 7.

https://answersingenesis.org/ministry-news/ark-encounter/answers-for-the-ark-scoffers/

 

[Stephen B]

[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]

 

[Kev]

Hmmm do you think they are using cubits while building this ark?  www.arkencounter.com

Based on the authentic use of trucks, forklifts and pre-package timber I'd say most certainly [wink]

Of course I'd bet if Noah had all that available he would have used it too

The answer to that lies in their FAQ, and it's hilarious.

Number 7.

https://answersingenesis.org/ministry-news/ark-encounter/answers-for-the-ark-scoffers/

LoL ... you'd think with all that advanced tech they'd be a couple of other seaworthy boats then heh [big grin] [big grin]

 

[Tinker]

[size=13pt]
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]
[size=10pt]
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

 

[greg mann]

[size=13pt]
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]
[size=10pt]
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!

 

[Kev]

[size=13pt]
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]
[size=10pt]
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!

No I didn't ... that's really heavy man [blink]

 

[NL-mikkla]

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

 

[Kev]

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]

 

[WastedP]

I've worked in an all-metric cabinet shop and I thought it was great.  I love working in mils, especially when dealing with hinges and slides.  But outside of the cabinet industry, I'm not sure there's a lot of pressure for other trades to adapt.  My father's a plumber, and I don't see the metric system changing his life, except for stating that a 6L toilet uses "about a gallon and a half per flush."

One thing I would note about oddball plywood sizes (1240, etc) is that some sheetgoods are oversized for trim.  Sheets of industrial particleboard and plastic laminate here are usually an inch, er, 25 mm larger than their nominal size.  So some 4x8's are 49" by 97".  I don't know how many times that 61st inch of laminate has saved my hide.

 

[benwheeler]

Hmmm do you think they are using cubits while building this ark?  www.arkencounter.com

Based on the authentic use of trucks, forklifts and pre-package timber I'd say most certainly [wink]

Of course I'd bet if Noah had all that available he would have used it too

The answer to that lies in their FAQ, and it's hilarious.

Number 7.

https://answersingenesis.org/ministry-news/ark-encounter/answers-for-the-ark-scoffers/

LoL ... you'd think with all that advanced tech they'd be a couple of other seaworthy boats then heh [big grin] [big grin]

The first one was probably built by a 3D printer [emoji23]

 

[AlexThePalex]

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.

 

[Wuffles]

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]

 

[Tinker]

[size=13pt]
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]
[size=10pt]
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