And distance is based on the circumference of the Earth.
When you say you are so many meters tall.
You are saying: I am so and so fraction of the circumference of the Earth.
Which doesn't make sense.
Foot.
Lie down. Let me see how many steps of my foot will reach from head to toe.
It is in the range of a step, with your feet.
Nautical speed. Knots. Why?
You tie a rope with evenly spaced knots to something.
Count the number of knots that pass your hand as the ship runs away from the post.
That's how you determine the speed of a ship.
Even numbers are not logical.
They are decimal.
They are digital.
They are not analog.
This is analog.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty." - The Gettysburg Address.
Not
"87 years ago".
87 has no meaning, in terms of money. It is digital. It is not analog.
Four score and seven = 4 twenty dollar bills + 7 one dollar bills.
I'd like to withdraw $87 dollars.
In what denominations?
No..I think it is because you regret breaking away from your Lord and Master, and want some nostalgia for when things were orderly.🇬🇧
12 inches in a foot.
12 is more divisible by whole numbers than 10.
Eggs come in a dozen.
12 hours on the face of a clock.
I was inside FAA HQ when they discuss changing from Degrees to Radians.
That makes sense in the age of computers. Radian is the natural language of computers.
Degrees is analog to us.
What about a bakers dozen?
You get one extra in case any one of the 12 is small.
I learned from the Bible.
A cubit.
The length from the elbow to the tip of your finger.
What a convenient unit!
I do use a "cubit" to measure things when I can't find my yard stick.
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I have to pass on my knowledge.
"Memories are lost in time, like tears in rain." - Blade Runner.
I think it was the reverse.
They were probably converting US standard into Metric and Metric parts are not 1 to 1 convertible from US.
That's what the "scientific" community does. Convert into Metric.
That's what the "scientific" community does. Convert into Metric.
I was in a hospital and the digital thermometers were in Celsius.
Celsius. What a ridiculous concept.
Fahrenheit himself set 100 F as body temperature. (It's 98.6 F. He did not have precision instruments we now have.)
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn 😂
The metric system does not make sense.
It makes sense in a Star Trek way.
It does not make sense in an Earth way.
It is based on water.
When you say you weigh a number of kilograms, what you are actually saying is that you weigh so many drops of water.
That does't make sense.
English. Stones. You would use stones as a counter-weight to a person.