Europeans
MPH
metres per hour
Sounds shockingly accurate for most European domestic cars
I fairly often drive 50,000m/h, except on the autobahn. There I usually go about 120,000,000mm/h.
And if I stack 1000 1cm³ blocks of water, the resulting 10m high column has a volume of 1l, weighs 1kg and exerts 100kPa of pressure on its base. And to heat it by 1°C requires 1kcal, while 1N would accelerate it by 1m/s every second.
What I want to say is: Your point is stupid and your units are too.
Man can literally stack blocks of water and is excited about units being easy to convert. Wild.
and is excited about units being easy to convert
anyone who doesn’t is already dead inside
And this is all broken up into decihour days, no? With each hour being made up of 100 centiminutes?
Can you spot why years, months, days, hours and minutes are not SI units?
This is an honest question. The SI units were chosen very carefully with regard to their human usability and scientific universality.
To be clear, most science/advanced education in the US is conducted in SI units.
Also, a year is about pi*10^7 seconds, which can be useful for back-of-the-envelopes.
In utah, I can average 80 mph on a road trip, in the houston texas area I can go maybe 20 mph average, so time is a lot more useful of a measure.
"The British think 100 miles is a long way.
The Americans think 100 years is a long time."
How is 100 miles long? It’s like an hour and a half.
100 years is like 20,000 cannonball runs, of course it’s a long way!
100 miles means I will likely never visit you
You wouldn’t spend an hour and a half to visit me? That seems like you don’t like me very much.
I have some family I visit for a weekend 2-3 times a year, a bit over 400 miles away. It’s a 5.5 hour trip I can knock out in a morning or after work.
In the Midwest, we sometimes measure distance in number of songs.
My commute was an album and an EP long
Can confirm. I pedest, and it’s more useful for me to know how long it will take to get somewhere than how far away that somewhere is. One effects my time of departure, the other is just a fun fact.
