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Certainly, it being the Suez and all, they should have quoted the length in Great Pyramids. After all, in the realm of goofy inferial measurements, it's well known that...Quote:
Originally Posted by DIYSwede
1 Empire State building = 3.2 Great Pyramids
While not exactly in realm of measurement, I relate what terminology we use EVERY day, that our PC's and Mac's are completely illiterate. The very same vocabulary 100% responsible getting their products manufactured and distributed. Mobile phones, even worse.
re: Great Pyramids...is 3.2 one of each, or compared to a certain example x 3.2?
it's on cnn...must be a dingy.
Cubits. That’s what we should be using. Yes, indeed.
What's a cubit? How long can you tread water...
The Great Pyramid (singular) normally refers to Khufu's pyramid, the largest of the three at Giza. It was the tallest man-made structure on earth until the erection of the Eiffel Tower.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
my wifes way of mesure ment is eazer for me around the house......it's about this long.....
Soon as method contrived to stack them up.Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
I wonder, two base to base, one apex, maybe three apex to base?
Remaining .2 up to configuring party.
Can't resist.Quote:
Originally Posted by marksbug
Classic reference to the question 'how long has it been?'
"Well, it's been different lengths at different times!'
Hint, Henry McGee and Fred Scuttle
Well it's not that long but it sure is short...
In the inferial spirit...four and a half hands, give or take a finger.Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
Roughly, from forefinger to elbow. Most encounter the word in the Bible (KJV) It’s before the walking on water bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
somebody watches CNN?Quote:
Originally Posted by DIYSwede
it was a google ad.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdurand
Also in the famous Christian proof that pi is equal to three...Quote:
Originally Posted by Philip Davies
"And he [Hiram] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26
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Originally Posted by mklotz
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Well it could be three in that case, just need some dude whose arm is just a bit longer than Hirams...
"The size of 2 American football fields, with cooling towers four stories high."
I for one haven't a clue as to how long an "American football field" is, or any other football field either.
Then again how high is a "storie"? Is that like in a house? An apartment building? a skyscraper building? Or?
It sure bugs me when they throw in these ambiguous measurements that they expect everybody to know perxactly what they mean.
A Usonian football field is 777... jugs of maple syrup long.Quote:
Originally Posted by katy
A story is about the height of 36 jugs of maple syrup.
long enough to egt the job done and done well....well possibly not so well as I have to do it over and over. a never ending task that never gets old...but I do.
Yes, but, you see they had cubits for radii and longer cubits for circumference.Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
Their god gave them a fairly exacting description of the box he wanted built...Quote:
Originally Posted by Philip Davies
It is to be 2-1/2 cubits in length, 1-1/2 in breadth, and 1-1/2 in height.
Given their freewheeling with the length of a cubit when building basins, they stood a good chance of botching the job and seeing a big finger pointing out of the sky and a booming voice, "You clumsy bastards, can't you get anything right?"
What is the "molten sea" mentioned in the biblical quote? Was "sea" an ancient name for a basin or is this just another mistranslation like the "horns" on Moses' head?
I think I've found the defiinitive set of measurments of the ship stuck in the Suez:
"The vessel, operated by Taiwan-based Evergreen Group, is one of the biggest in the world: as long as four football fields, as wide as the wingspan of a Boeing 747, and, thanks to the 200,000 tons of containers stacked on board, as tall as a 12-story building."
Why I'll bet the original blueprints used just those measurements :-) Lead Engineer "That diagonal there, it needs to be ⅓ football field by wingtip to the second engine."
From https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021...he-suez-canal/
Problem is that the builder was just a Cessna hair off when measured!Quote:
Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat
and the wheelhouse needs to be a baseball diamond. 2 ping pong table sized radars. partridge in a pare tree sized radio antenna.
Your comments upset me a bit, but since you ask, I’ll tell you.Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
The molten sea simply refers to the fact that it was cast from bronze. The Israelite women gave up their “brazen” mirrors. It was five cubits high and its capacity was 19,386 gallons. It was used for ritual cleansing. It was only filled two-thirds.
The horn is a symbol of authority.
The common Egyptian cubit, 6 palms of 4 digits each, is 6 to 7 of the Royal cubit, which Newton called “profane”. The sacred cubit, measured in the Jerusalem temple, measures 2.0736 feet and is in 6 to 5 ratio with the Royal, ie 30 digits. The Athenian foot is half a sacred cubit. (Source: John Neal)
Actually, they'd halve those measurements; aircraft drawings are almost exclusively left hand [port] side only. The right side is basically viewed 'through' the print to envision their form more clearly. Non symmetric items of course, have designated drawings.Quote:
Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat
Proof positive superiorty of metrics compatability with imperial system
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Just my ~.02 worth.
A huge asteroid three times the size of a London bus will zip between Earth and the moon tomorrow at a distance of just 159,000 miles, NASA has revealed...
Or 2/3 the height of Arc De Triomphe, or ...Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
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159,000 miles...so...how many taxi's is that??:headscratch:
English or Yellow?
checkerd. but...if you list the english also we will know the metrick mesurement.
The Great Pyramid is “huge”, the Empire State Building is “huge”, but relatively speaking a London Bus is quite small.
There's "huge" and there's "really huge". Your comment made me look up some volumes...Quote:
Originally Posted by Moby Duck
Surprisingly, the pyramid is about 2.5 times the volume of the building; 92E6 ft^3 vs 37E6.
If the interior of the pyramid is really composed of blocks of stone*, that represents one helluva lot of rock chipping.
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* An engineer (as opposed to archaeologist) has pointed out that even rough forming of the supposed interior blocks should have produced a pile of swarf roughly as big of the pyramid itself, yet no evidence of such waste has ever been found on the plateau or in the Nile. He believes the interior is composed of rock spoil, perhaps from the blocks that formed the surface of the monument. I don't buy his theory but the missing spoil pile is a genuine issue.
and then there is the OMG THATS HUGE!!!:bananadance:
What is the conversion from imperial to metric OMG!Quote:
Originally Posted by marksbug
it's a mess...like a flock,or heard or gaggle, it's a mess. what else is described as a mess?:headscratch:
None of these are a mess...
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... or the size of a huge asteroid!
