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[jqavins]

For us Americans to really get used to metric units, we shouldn't keep doing precise conversions except when they're necessary. Just use them. Get used to them the same way we got used to our customary units. Immersion. Occasional conversions, like guided immersion for languages, can help, but don't try to make them any more precise than needed. We've all seen rulers with inches on one edge and centimeters on the other, so we all know that a foot is 30 cm, or close enough. 30.5 if you like, but usually not needed. 30.48 exactly, but it doesn't matter 99% of the time. So if I'd done the exact conversion I'd have rounded it to 61 cm, but since pilots' heights vary by more than a cm, the quick and dirty 30 cm to the foot is all that's needed. Then just start thinking of babies as about 60 cm, a big baby as about 70 cm, etc., and stop doing conversions. (Now I want to see a baby piloting a tie fighter.)

So to figure out what that is without an Internet conversion page I remembered that a 4" tube is 98-101mm.
[BT-101]

60Cm is 600mm so take 4" times 6 = 2 feet.

Yes. Like the ruler, use whatever is familiar to you do do those rough conversions that help you get used to metric units.

(A US nickel weighs 5 grams, which I find to be a nice familiar reference object for small masses.)

 

[brockrwood]

 

[Art Upton]

For us Americans to really get used to metric units, we shouldn't keep doing precise conversions except when they're necessary. Just use them. Get used to them the same way we got used to our customary units. Immersion. Occasional conversions, like guided immersion for languages, can help, but don't try to make them any more precise than needed. We've all seen rulers with inches on one edge and centimeters on the other, so we all know that a foot is 30 cm, or close enough. 30.5 if you like, but usually not needed. 30.48 exactly, but it doesn't matter 99% of the time. So if I'd done the exact conversion I'd have rounded it to 61 cm, but since pilots' heights vary by more than a cm, the quick and dirty 30 cm to the foot is all that's needed. Then just start thinking of babies as about 60 cm, a big baby as about 70 cm, etc., and stop doing conversions. (Now I want to see a baby piloting a tie fighter.)


Yes. Like the ruler, use whatever is familiar to you do do those rough conversions that help you get used to metric units.

(A US nickel weighs 5 grams, which I find to be a nice familiar reference object for small masses.)

Quick how many Cubic Inches in 5 Liters ? [Car Guys will will know in an instant]

But how many Liters is a 454 Cubic Inch Rat motor?

 

[jd2cylman]

Quick how many Cubic Inches in 5 Liters ? [Car will will know in an instant]

But how many Liters is a 454 Cubic Inch Rat motor?

302 to 305 depending on if you believe Ford or Chevy.
7.4 liters for the 454 if you believe Chevy. The Ford 460 was 7.5L

 

[Art Upton]

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And using that quick conversion, 3.3 meters tall that growth looks. I figgured about 11 feet as a guess.

 

[Art Upton]

302 to 305 depending on if you believe Ford or Chevy.
7.4 liters for the 454 if you believe Chevy. The Ford 460 was 7.5L

Yea the 302 Coyote motor was 4.9 if you rounded down, but hey you gotta' say "5 Ohh" like the show...

 

[Art Upton]

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[Bravo52]

 

[SolarYellow]

302 to 305 depending on if you believe Ford or Chevy.
7.4 liters for the 454 if you believe Chevy. The Ford 460 was 7.5L

306 if you know the actual conversion.

 

[brockrwood]

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Technically, it’s a “Speediraptor”. A Velociraptor would have direction as well as a speed.

 

[jqavins]

Quick how many Cubic Inches in 5 Liters ? [Car Guys will will know in an instant]

But how many Liters is a 454 Cubic Inch Rat motor?

About 300, probably a little more.

Quick mental math: a gallon is 231 in³, and a little less than four liters. So five liters is 5/4 of a little more than 231 in³, and 5/4 × 240 is 300.

 

[Knundrm]

 

[4regt4]

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Yup. I do this. I'm the world's worst spaghetti twirler. I need shorter pieces, else I'll be wearing it.

Hans.

 

[Knundrm]

 

[jqavins]

I was in a rented vacation condo for a couple of weeks (but actually there for work) and when we came in and turned on the hot water, the whole place stank of hydrogen sulfide; it can form when water is standing stagnant in a water heater if the it comes with various other sulfur compounds. The place was uninhabitable. We turned on the hot water and went out for an hour. Things were OK when we got back.

What's funny about it?

 

[Knundrm]

I was in a rented vacation condo for a couple of weeks (but actually there for work) and when we came in and turned on the hot water, the whole place stank of hydrogen sulfide; it can form when water is standing stagnant in a water heater if the it comes with various other sulfur compounds. The place was uninhabitable. We turned on the hot water and went out for an hour. Things were OK when we got back.

What's funny about it?

There are places, like Sulphur OK, that have incredibly high nature sulpher content in their water. The whole town used to smell like that. If you aren't expecting it, it's funny!

 

[Hyak]

not a leafs fan.. Montreal, remember!!


actually, don't really care for hockey..

Ahhhhhh yes, the only place in the world Leafs fall in the Spring.... Toronto

 

[kuririn]

There are places, like Sulphur OK, that have incredibly high nature sulpher content in their water. The whole town used to smell like that. If you aren't expecting it, it's funny!

Is that near Fart Sill?

 

[kuririn]

WTF?

 

[kuririn]

 

[Sooner Boomer]

 

[Worsaer]

The specification read, “Pour concrete footing 36” from rail.” It did not specify which one. It’s not a defect - it’s a bad requirement.

(Been there… fought those battles)

 

[boatgeek]

The specification read, “Pour concrete footing 36” from rail.” It did not specify which one. It’s not a defect - it’s a bad requirement.

(Been there… fought those battles)

That or it's an abandoned track that wasn't worth removing when they put that new foundation in. The tops of those rails are pretty rusty. Though to be fair, the foundation looks like it's been there for a little while too.

 

[Knundrm]

Is that near Fart Sill?

Not really.

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[brockrwood]

I was in a rented vacation condo for a couple of weeks (but actually there for work) and when we came in and turned on the hot water, the whole place stank of hydrogen sulfide; it can form when water is standing stagnant in a water heater if the it comes with various other sulfur compounds. The place was uninhabitable. We turned on the hot water and went out for an hour. Things were OK when we got back.

What's funny about it?

Hydrogen Sulfide. H2S. Sewer gas. Quite flammable. Fairly toxic. So, anaerobic bacteria eat sulfur when it is found in decaying organic matter and then release it as Hydrogen Sulfude? Water chemists must chime in…

 

[4regt4]

Hydrogen Sulfide. H2S. Sewer gas. Quite flammable. Fairly toxic. So, anaerobic bacteria eat sulfur when it is found in decaying organic matter and then release it as Hydrogen Sulfude? Water chemists must chime in…

As a child, I used to make H2S from hydrochloric acid and ferric? /ferrous? sulphide. I did it to stink up the house, because I was the mad scientist and my mother did not have a clue what I was doing.

Hans.

 

[Matt Danison]

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For Magic Johnson?

 

[4regt4]

For Magic Johnson?

His Johnson must be truly magic to reach up there.

Hans.

 

[jqavins]

Quite flammable. Fairly toxic.

Wait. Strike that. Reverse it. Flammable, sure, and also extremely toxic and insidious. Our noses are very sensitive to it because it's so dangerous. And when you're poisoned by it, what's the first thing effected? You guessed it, the sense of smell. It accumulates in small spaces, you go in, you think "That's a really bad smell" but then the bad smell is gone, so you relax, and then you drop dead.

If you've ever worked someplace where you had safety training on entering confined spaces, you can thank hydrogen sulfide.

As to where it comes from, anaerobic bacteria don't eat it unless you'd say aerobic bacteria eat oxygen. No, the anaerobes eat basically the same stuff, and suffer is their oxidizer. So they emit H₂S instead of H₂O. I don't know where the carbon goes, but it's not CS₂ as you might suppose. Some is methane, but that would need more hydrogen than the food has. Some is methane thiol, a.k.a. methyl mercaptan, CH₃SH, which is also horribly toxic, but our noses are even more sensitive to it; that's the stuff they put in natural gas at no more than 8 ppm so you can smell when there's a leak. But that too would require excess hydrogen. So I don't know how it works out.