Metric vs Imperial: Who Would Win ?

[EmanuelGoldstein]

You no doubt could but would take better math skills than I have

Isn't there an app for that ?

 

[CarbideBob]

I suspect other than myself your the only person here that knows the conversion factor to go from Furlong Per Fortnight to Miles Per Hour

Had a cousin from Germany come visit and we are looking at my original Ninja.
Hard time talking back and forth but he asks how fast. I tell him my best 164 on radar and he is would have thought faster.
I did the conversion and told him 260+ and then took him for a dual up ride up to a buck-forty US just to give him an idea of crazy.
We could not speak each others language but he had the biggest grin when back home and saying all kinds of things to his wife that I had no idea of the what.

Different numbering systems that you grow up with can be confusing.
.001 in metric is not .001 in inches.
If someone here says I need to hold .001 I have to try to see if this is a thou of an inch or a micron because I do not know. Same and maybe even more confusing at .010.
You all should use my system of measurement. Why? because it is mine.
Bob

 

[thermite]

You all should use my system of measurement. Why? because it is mine.
Bob

Sounds like just another tall tael to me...

What is the unit called a tael?

 

[donie]

"Sounds like just another tall tael to me..."

termite the the troll would know about that! He is the forum expert on lying.
Come on termite, roll your latest 8000 rpm Hardinge HLVH tall tale, and you making little stainless screws.
Or, the 50hp 50" Niles lathe, and you making spring cuts on screw threads in 1959!
Yes sir termite you are the king of tall tales here.

 

[Georgineer]

... we are looking at my original Ninja... he asks how fast. I tell him my best 164 on radar and he is would have thought faster.
I did the conversion and told him 260+ and then took him for a dual up ride up to a buck-forty US just to give him an idea of crazy.

Bob

I have to admit that I don't understand your language either. After several readings I think it's probably about a fast trip on a motorbike, though at first I thought it was an aeroplane. (I dismissed the thought that it was a turtle fairly early.)

Still, they say that Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George B.

 

[ManicMetalBasher]

#51 Oldwrench
"Given that the Soviet Union was a shit-ton more imperialistic than we ever were, and is long gone"

Long gone? Last time I looked Biden 2iC was promising full on USSR, in the USA.
A few years of Harris and it will be two hundred metric million US dollars to one Venezuelan Bolivar.

#52 FredC
" I have wondered why the French did not apply the decimal system to time also."

They tried. They measured lobsters in Thermidors.

#53 Mud
"even though radians is metric"

And Steradians are on drugs?

 

[TeachMePlease]

You no doubt could but would take better math skills than I have

Is there an app for that?

Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence

Never stumble over a conversion again.

(Post is only slightly tongue in cheek... Wolfram Alpha really WILL convert just about anything. For fun, I converted 40 furlongs per fort night to knots and got the attached image.

Welp, image compressed too much.

40 furlongs per fortnight is equivalent to 0.01293 knots.

Additional conversions:

.02395km/h
6.652mm/s
.006652m/s

Comparison:
~2.4 x the speed of the fastest garden snail (.0028m/s)

Time to travel 1 meter from t=d/v
150 seconds
2.5 minutes

Time to travel 1 kilometer from t=d/v
150322 seconds
2505 minutes
42 hours
1.7 days

Observed wind intensity from v=0.836B^(3/2) m/s
0 Beaufort scale numbers

 

[Mtndew]

Had a cousin from Germany come visit and we are looking at my original Ninja.
Hard time talking back and forth but he asks how fast. I tell him my best 164 on radar

I had the ZX636R and could not get that to go faster than 164mph.

 

[TeachMePlease]

I had the ZX636R and could not get that to go faster than 164mph.

Most bikes sold after like.... 1996-ish were speed limited to 164 even if the motors/gearing could do it. Hence the rise of the ever popular Power Commander add on... You could get around that.

 

[CarbideBob]

I had the ZX636R and could not get that to go faster than 164mph.

It is a 1984 GPZ900R. In fact the first one sold in Michigan.
I said original but did not say stock trim. Bored, head work,cams, carbs and pipes.
Radar check done courtesy of the Mt. Morris police department friends on I-475 just north of the Buick complex.
A ZX636R would certifiably kill it on track. One can toss this in a corner so nicely and flick such back and forth and that is a true joy.
I still have it and all the original parts so I am restoring to stock trim since even as evil handing it is still holds a place in my heart.

At the time being faster and taking that bet was a insane drive to me be it cars, bikes, sleds, and boats.
If I had any sort a brain I would have put the money in the stock market.
Go fast or the need for speed is a disease for the young. Then you get old and can't do what you once did. That sucks.
When in a hurry to get somewhere the wife tells me I drive like a old man.

But this is astray. 12 MM bar and 1/2 inch. Who wins in the cut?
Bob

 

[Milland]

Long gone? Last time I looked Biden 2iC was promising full on USSR, in the USA.
A few years of Harris and it will be two hundred metric million US dollars to one Venezuelan Bolivar.

It seems there's an outbreak of insanity in JollyOlde.

Let's revisit whose currency has done worse in a few years, shall we?

 

[boslab]

Ok some like metric, some imperial ( interesting how meters shows up in Egypt, perhaps it’s older than we think) what would you use, shoe size is some ears of wheat lined up, the meter standard was replaced originally by the number of oscillations of a krypton lamp, I think, so what should a universal measuring system be based on ( no not your man prong length in angstrom units ) realistically, what would you use?, I’ve read a few ideas like a drop of oil on a water bath, sounds plausible I suppose, it’s really hard to think what we would use, recently proposed similar to the water bath was a single drip of water on a non absorbent surface turns out to be 1 cm approx, how odd, I’m at a loss to come up with one, maybe a column of mercury expansion, but you need a thing to calibrate the thing, it’s a good thought experiment.
I’m from the 60s so I use both inches, feet and meters with impunity though judging by the length of timber I cut today I appear to be working in hands (4” horse measurement) I do like fathoms mind, very pirate, got some of them in the family but honestly what thing in nature of useful size is consistent enough to provide a sensible measurement, hard one
Meanwhile I’m metric for engineering imperial for building ( though 150mm is far more impressive than 6”)
Worst thing I found was an imperial drawing just multiplied by 25.4 to force it to be metric, if I saw 25.5mm on a drawing I got the inch mics out, easier as 9 times out of 10 the tolerances were completely forked up
Mark

 

[dian]

i dont have much problems with inches, what gets me are cups (cusomary/imperial?), ounces (fluid/troy/imperial?), stones, farenheit, knots, cu.ft./min, barrels (6.5 buckets) and similar.

 

[Mike1974]

I might have a new one. At our vet's they have a social distancing sign for 6'.... 2 great Danes, or 7 chihuahuas... LoL