r/anythingbutmetric
4 baby elephants is my new favorite unit of measure
u/Safe-Direction-606 — 2 days ago
How many paper plates to stop a bullet?
u/Icy-Book2999 — 3 days ago
My kids somehow changed my bathroom scale to measure in stone.
u/eucher317 — 4 days ago
A fossil of a Turtle the size of a car unearthed in South America. Carlos for scale.
u/Impressive-Gear7943 — 6 days ago
TIL about Basilosaurus, the ancestor to modern whales; which was the length of a bowling alley, was an apex predator, and still had remnants of arms and legs.
en.wikipedia.orgu/Oingo_Boingo2000 — 5 days ago
My 1987 Nissan Stanza reached 500k
u/Windowsweirdo — 7 days ago
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700 million lbs of snow, or 800 miles of washing machines.
From the local news
u/thehotshotpilot — 2 days ago
One Furlong per Moment is Equal to Five Miles per Hour.
Yesterday I was bored at work when I got the idea to try and come up with my own unit for measuring speed. I have always found the furlong per fortnight pretty amusing but it is absolutely unusable. I get that that's the point, but still having a unit in the same vein that is still usable in daily life would be fun.
So after some quick googling I found that in medieval Europe a solar hour (1/12 of a solar day) was divided into 40 parts. One 40th of a solar hour is a "Moment". So after running the numbers with a coworker, we found that one Fur/Mom is about 2.235 m/s. Given that, it turns out that 2.235 m/s is nearly exactly 5 (4.9995) mph
All this is to say, I will be rejecting all units both imperial and metric for this obviously superior system.
u/Such_Key — 5 days ago
Is Venti the large one?
How tall is a “tall”
Also, its always interesting to find remnants from the pandemic
u/Sarcastic_Pessimist — 7 days ago