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The legend at the bottom is so true. DAMHIKT.
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The legend at the bottom is so true. DAMHIKT.
Well, there was a study done a while back that showed somewhere north of 80% of Americans believe they are either in the top 20% of income earners or close to it. I never knew it was so crowded at the yacht harbor!
Life's hard by the yard, by the inch it's a cinch. Try metricating that.
In response to Hemmjo, in Australia tyre sizes use inches to signify wheel diameter. So 255/65 R17 is an example the 17 being inches. The only other aberration I am aware of is altitude measurement for aircraft which is in feet, I guess for safety reasons. Similarly aircraft airspeed and nautical speed is measured in knots or nautical miles per hour, a nautical mile being, I think an arbitrary division used for increments of latitude and longitude which assists in navigation calculations.
And that is the reason why most are broke and don't even know it, even if they all woke up one morning to find they no longer owed anything on any type of credit, and those who play the stock markets found out they no longer held any investment capital aside from their original cash investment none of them would be able to last 6 months on what little real income or actual cash on hand they possessed before once again finding themselves up to their eyebrows in debt.Quote:
Originally Posted by schuylergrace
A nautical mile (6076 ft) is approximately the length of one arc minute of latitude on the earth's surface. The length of an arc minute of longitude is different at different latitudes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bony
Well, if we are doing pi jokes:Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net..._you_comic.jpg
A quote from...
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segmen...e-really-need/
Mathematician James Grime of the YouTube channel Numberphile has determined that 39 digits of pi—
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288420
—would suffice to calculate the circumference of the known universe to the width of a hydrogen atom. (That number is rounded, for those of you keeping track.)
My alma mater has pi to a billion digits available for your delectation...
https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/pi/
[QUOTE=mklotz;211017]A quote from...
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segmen...e-really-need/
Mathematician James Grime of the YouTube channel Numberphile has determined that 39 digits of pi—
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288420
—would suffice to calculate the circumference of the known universe to the width of a hydrogen atom. (That number is rounded, for those of you keeping track.)
JPL, on the other hand tracks Voyager 1 using pi rounded only to a measly 15 digits. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/20...e-really-need/
Assuming of course that the universe was round and had some comprehensible and definable limit.Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
The "KNOWN universe" is defined by the greatest distance to which we can see with our current technology. It is a radius and associated with that radius is the geometric notion of a circumference. It is that circumference to which the quote refers, not the as yet unknown boundary of the universe, if indeed one exists.Quote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
The most puzzling issue to me revolves around the fact that the universe is expanding. Into what is it expanding ? The question is as mind contorting as speculation of the origin of the big bang.
I heard there is a good resterauant at the edge of the universeQuote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
Good to know 'cause there ain't no good restaurants around here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
The "large boulder the size of a small boulder" tweet has reached meme status, and a similar tweet by the San Miguel Sheriff warned of a "large boulder the size of a large boulder":
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So what is a ISO standard 'large boulder'?
74 golden retrievers.Quote:
Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat
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hmm I wonder how big it would be in bolder CO.?
The area "Stoner Creek" would explain the explanationQuote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Stoner creek, a large boulder the size of a large boulder, Hum must be something in the water.
You got that one wrong Frank, it's a lack of something between the ears.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
rong you old kodger, its' smoke between the ears.
Actually, Frank is right on the mark, the stuff in the water can have a very detrimental to the stuff between the ears! The list of contaminates common found in drinking water is EXTENSIVE and NOT ISOLATED to just a few remote areas in the US.Quote:
Originally Posted by old kodger
and they use that h2o to water the weed...
But maybe it was the water that the empty space between the earsQuote:
Originally Posted by old kodger
Not to belittle those with the serious condition of water on the brain, but that's a soggy noodle.
Sing if you can, hum if you must....Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG6MV4eJ-nY
maybe the answer to water on the brain ia a tap on the head.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
In regard to "something in the water", I just saw this while reading some news. This article shows a major source of toxic chemicals in our water. We continue to build, purchase, use and discard products that are choking the life out of us.
I use We and Us in a very broad sense, myself included. Some of us try to recycle. I know a lot of the HMT group reuses a lot of stuff. The recycling "business" is not yet up to the task of dealing with massive stream of waste we continue generate. Even if by some miracle we began today, and were somehow able to properly reuse/recycle the whole waste stream in a safe way, we still have all of the stuff already abandoned for generations all over the world left to deal with.
All the while we continue to invent, build, use and throw away, new difficult to recycle stuff everyday. A lot of it, in the name of Saving The Environment.
Gadzooks! Do I love me a good pun. The punnier it is, the better.Quote:
Originally Posted by old kodger
Well... I don't play "Rock, Paper, Scissors" much, but if I did, I'm calling dibs on this rock! So, bring on your paper because, with this guy I'm declaring an automatic "Win". Just ask the guy with the scissors!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Maybe notQuote:
Originally Posted by JoeVanGeaux
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Is this the first pour of one of those runways by mail?
it what's been passed through the water, the bong water that is! ;)
Damn!! Just when I thought I beat the system! LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I guess you could do that with itQuote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com...ed%20newspaper.
At least what the blueprints will be on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
but dam , wouldent that look great in my front yard.
Guessing you mean the boulder sized boulder? It would mean less grass to mow for sure!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by marksbug
New size comparison:
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What I could do with an army of trained fire ants each the size of Rhoad IslandQuote:
Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat
