Comments on: Measuring Up Size Comparisons http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html/comment-page-2#comment-466289 David Bradley Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:44:53 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html#comment-466289 Paul, I may re-visit this post and do a mass comparison like you suggest, and perhaps a time one too... Paul, I may re-visit this post and do a mass comparison like you suggest, and perhaps a time one too…

]]> By: Paul_allan http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html/comment-page-1#comment-466250 Paul_allan Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:23:30 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html#comment-466250 Interesting posts for viewers who are interested to know something about tiny measurements. Nice to walkthrough your post you have used right from pinhead to pentium 3chip as an example for your measurements.Happy to visit .I will be more happy if you have used mass comparision. ________ Paul allan. <a href="http://www.elvi.co.uk/cl/3000/New-Collections.html" rel="nofollow">Size 28 Clothing </a> Interesting posts for viewers who are interested to know something about tiny measurements. Nice to walkthrough your post you have used right from pinhead to pentium 3chip as an example for your measurements.Happy to visit .I will be more happy if you have used mass comparision.

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]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html/comment-page-1#comment-112940 David Bradley Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:34:35 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html#comment-112940 Mike, you're right. Law enforcement would be the only way. Unfortunately, the European Union just caved in to pressure from UK retailers that means they can continue to use pounds and ounces instead of being legally obliged to use kilos and litres. The Arabic system is base 10, but the Babylonian system on which time is measured is base 60 is it not, and all digital (ironically) is base 2. Maybe the real solution is to move everyone to base 1, we wouldn't have to worry about counting or anything then! Mike, you’re right. Law enforcement would be the only way. Unfortunately, the European Union just caved in to pressure from UK retailers that means they can continue to use pounds and ounces instead of being legally obliged to use kilos and litres. The Arabic system is base 10, but the Babylonian system on which time is measured is base 60 is it not, and all digital (ironically) is base 2. Maybe the real solution is to move everyone to base 1, we wouldn’t have to worry about counting or anything then!

]]> By: Mike Palmer http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html/comment-page-1#comment-112787 Mike Palmer Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:17:41 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html#comment-112787 The only way we will ever graduate to the metric system is to pass laws that require that all measurements in industry, consumer products, etc. be expressed only in metric terms. Only a few years would be required for everyone to become familiar with the metric system once forced to do so. It woudl also go a long way in improving communications. Our arabic mumber system is base 10. Why shouldn't everything else be base 10? As a scientist, I will admit that I still have to convert measurements mentally. After all, when I go to buy lumber or a carpenters rule, they still come in inches and feet. These antiquated measurments based on such as the length of arms etc. need to be abandoned and everyone get on the same scale! The only way we will ever graduate to the metric system is to pass laws that require that all measurements in industry, consumer products, etc. be expressed only in metric terms. Only a few years would be required for everyone to become familiar with the metric system once forced to do so. It woudl also go a long way in improving communications. Our arabic mumber system is base 10. Why shouldn’t everything else be base 10? As a scientist, I will admit that I still have to convert measurements mentally. After all, when I go to buy lumber or a carpenters rule, they still come in inches and feet. These antiquated measurments based on such as the length of arms etc. need to be abandoned and everyone get on the same scale!

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html/comment-page-1#comment-111123 David Bradley Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:27:25 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html#comment-111123 It's funny that you should describe it as the English method. The majority of Brits are still stuck in thinking which inches and pounds too, despite the fact that the metric system was introduced in the nineteenth century and has held sway across Europe, Canada, and elsewhere for decades. It's probably a myth but didn't the NASA engineers who lost that Mars probe think the Brits used metric so converted all their feet (which were actually already metres) into meters? It’s funny that you should describe it as the English method. The majority of Brits are still stuck in thinking which inches and pounds too, despite the fact that the metric system was introduced in the nineteenth century and has held sway across Europe, Canada, and elsewhere for decades. It’s probably a myth but didn’t the NASA engineers who lost that Mars probe think the Brits used metric so converted all their feet (which were actually already metres) into meters?

]]> By: Hsien Lei http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html/comment-page-1#comment-111114 Hsien Lei Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:28:01 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/measuring-up-size-comparisons.html#comment-111114 Having grown up using inches and pounds as my measurement system, I still have to mentally convert anything in metric to the English method. You'd think I'd have gotten over that after so many years in science! Having grown up using inches and pounds as my measurement system, I still have to mentally convert anything in metric to the English method. You’d think I’d have gotten over that after so many years in science!

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