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aschen 02-01-2023 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by wilnj (Post 11911442)
But that’s where metric makes more sense.

Freezing is 0, boiling is 100.

Versus freezing is 32 unless you happen yo have a solution of water, ice and ammonium chloride, in which case it’s 0.


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Celsius is what water feels, Fahrenheit is what humans feel, and kelvin/rankin is what atoms feel


Saw that the other day and made me chuckle. Of course not precisely right but i get it

70SATMan 02-01-2023 07:50 AM
Ha! Just met one of our new EE interns yesterday. Stuck him with Reach/RoHS compliance work. He’s starting some of his first RF coursework this semester.

His name?? Kelvin. I told him I’d introduce him to thermal noise measurements next week and how we use those for determining G/T on our fielded antennas…

He didn’t get it..

KFC911 02-01-2023 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by flatbutt (Post 11911483)
As they say there are 10 types of people...:D
I will put the Hex on both of them :D

NY65912 02-01-2023 09:52 AM
Too many lazy / stupid people in the country for it to be successful.

jyl 02-01-2023 09:57 AM
Just to make life worse, let's mix in some counting in base 20 like the French.

masraum 02-01-2023 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by KC911 (Post 11911691)
I will put the Hex on both of them :D
0x!

jyl 02-01-2023 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by NY65912 (Post 11911705)
Too many lazy / stupid people in the country for it to be successful.
In the 70s (?) the metric system was being taught in school as preparation for a switch, we could have done it then.

Por_sha911 02-01-2023 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by rattlsnak (Post 11906873)
i certainly dont need/want to learn a whole measuring system at this point in my life!
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Originally Posted by jyl (Post 11911354)
Would 36-26-36 sound right in metric, though?
91-66-91 just doesn’t have that va va voom.
"My wife has a 91D bra" might be interesting

spuggy 02-01-2023 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer (Post 11906824)
Well, sorry. But even a quick Google would have shown this:

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Contrary to urban myth, NASA did use the metric system for the Apollo Moon landings. SI units were used for arguably the most critical part of the missions – the calculations that were carried out by the Lunar Module’s onboard Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) during the computer-controlled phases of the spacecraft’s descent to the surface of the Moon, and for the journey of the Ascent stage of the craft during its return to lunar orbit, where it would rendezvous with the Command and Service Module (CSM).
They open-sourced the code for the AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer); they used SI units in 1969. Because calculating in hogsheads, farthings and fortnights is hard...

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NY65912 02-02-2023 10:17 AM
I was taught metric in HS in the '70's prep to join the rest of the world. But it quickly fizzled out.

I guess it was harder thinking in tens than say ones. I remember a lot of push back.

GH85Carrera 02-02-2023 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by NY65912 (Post 11912554)
I was taught metric in HS in the '70's prep to join the rest of the world. But it quickly fizzled out.

I guess it was harder thinking in tens than say ones. I remember a lot of push back.
Our school tried to teach some metric. One teacher insisted we learn about computer punch cards and she said that was the future. I tried to tell her punch cards were on the way out, and magnetic tape was the up and coming computer thing. Like most teaches she did not appreciate student input. Tape had a longer run than punch cards I suspect.


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