Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

**Toolmaker51** · Apr 26, 2021, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker

This must be a widely accepted measuring method in Italy...?

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I don't read Italian, but quite sure the batter in the flour dam is polenta, 'corn meal'. Yaa we use it too!

**Jon** · May 12, 2021, 11:39 AM

Imperial measurements explained. 3:54 video:

**hemmjo** · May 12, 2021, 12:42 PM

Ha, that is funny!!

**Toolmaker51** · May 12, 2021, 01:02 PM

Revealed, FINALLY. I knew the logic would surface eventually.

**Frank S** · May 12, 2021, 01:42 PM

best laugh I've had all day. I laughed hard enough to probably add a light minute to my life

**IntheGroove** · May 12, 2021, 04:53 PM

Jason, Jason, Jason...

**hemmjo** · May 12, 2021, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by Frank S

best laugh I've had all day. I laughed hard enough to probably add a light minute to my life

I was thinking a light minute would be a linear measurement. 186,000 miles/sec, x 60 s =11,160,000 miles... lets ask Jason how many barley corns that is?

A light mile would be a unit of time? We should start using that.. "Honey, I will be there in 20 light miles." That means I better hurry!!!

**Moby Duck** · May 13, 2021, 05:15 AM

Quote from the video: “what kind of country would use a system like that”?

I think there is only one big country left, and that’s because they are pig headed about it, clinging to their colonial past.

**Hoosiersmoker** · May 13, 2021, 05:21 AM

So the guy that came up with it probably lost 2 fingers... so what?

**mklotz** · May 13, 2021, 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by hemmjo

I was thinking a light minute would be a linear measurement. 186,000 miles/sec, x 60 s =11,160,000 miles... lets ask Jason how many barley corns that is?

A light mile would be a unit of time? We should start using that.. "Honey, I will be there in 20 light miles." That means I better hurry!!!

A handy relation to remember is that light travels about a foot in a nanosecond.