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Request - Preferably Use SI Units

posted by LaminatorX on Monday February 24 2014, @12:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the How-many-slugs-to-the-stone? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"I have the following requests to members of this new forum:

1) Please use SI Units wherever possible. Alternative comparative units such as swimming pools, size of Florida, cars, libraries of congress, etc are also welcome ...

2) Please cover tech/science related stories from around the world. Please do not make this a US only website !!

Cheers and best wishes,

AnonTechie"

[ED Note: We as a community welcome submissions from around the world, as befits our international userbase. The Editorial team in particular is looking closely at including voices from outside the U.S. as we continue to grow. As for the units question in particular, stories will certainly arrive with a variety of units depending on the origin of the submission. We encourage, though do not require, submitters to include conversions where appropriate for clarity out of courtesy to your fellow readers. Though we try to use a light touch when making edits to story submissions, Editors may add these from time to time as well, should clarity demand and time permit.

Soylentils, does the current ad-hoc approach meet your needs, or do you favor a more formal approach from your news discussion site?]

 
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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by davester666 on Monday February 24 2014, @04:14AM

    by davester666 (155) on Monday February 24 2014, @04:14AM (#5523)

    Sorry, the standard unit of distances here on Earth are "football fields", which everybody knows is 100 yards long, like God intended.

    And for amounts of data, it's "Libraries of Congress", or 'loc' for short.

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  • (Score: 1) by Appalbarry on Monday February 24 2014, @05:12AM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Monday February 24 2014, @05:12AM (#5564) Journal

    Ahem. It's a 110 yards of course.... [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 1) by davester666 on Monday February 24 2014, @06:07AM

      by davester666 (155) on Monday February 24 2014, @06:07AM (#5596)

      Don't bring those heathen Canucks into it. The only sports they really know are curling and hockey.

    • (Score: 2) by dilbert on Monday February 24 2014, @02:30PM

      by dilbert (444) on Monday February 24 2014, @02:30PM (#5818)
      If you count the end-zones, it's 120 yards (american football)

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by greenfruitsalad on Monday February 24 2014, @09:41AM

    by greenfruitsalad (342) on Monday February 24 2014, @09:41AM (#5701)

    are we talking about football (like God intended) or american football?

    • (Score: 1) by davester666 on Monday February 24 2014, @06:52PM

      by davester666 (155) on Monday February 24 2014, @06:52PM (#6053)

      Just leave, and you can take your pitch with you!

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Nuke on Monday February 24 2014, @08:23PM

    by Nuke (3162) on Monday February 24 2014, @08:23PM (#6132)
    Wrote :-

    'the standard unit of distances here on Earth are "football fields"'

    No, that's an area. The length units, in the UK at least, are the length of a London bus, the length of electric cable used in the average house, the distance from London to Manchester, the circumference of the Earth, and the distance to the Moon and back, depending on context. These larger units are deliberately not integer multiples of smaller ones because that would be confusing. They are also separate from height units, which are Nelson's Column, Eiffel Tower etc.