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Post by Admiral Lithp on Aug 24, 2009 2:43:58 GMT -5
I just told you, shitton is the scientific unit, that means SI unit which means metric. It's not my fault the imperial system doesn't have an equivalent. Fixed the link tags for you. Why the hell can't America just switch over to metric, it'd be so much easier! You know who else used the metric system? Napoleon. You know who else was a dictator? Hitler. Yeah. Think about that. I know I won't.
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Post by Vene on Aug 24, 2009 3:09:21 GMT -5
I just told you, shitton is the scientific unit, that means SI unit which means metric. It's not my fault the imperial system doesn't have an equivalent. Fixed the link tags for you. Why the hell can't America just switch over to metric, it'd be so much easier! Oh, thank you, I did not see that. And you're right, metric makes so much more sense.
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Post by wmdkitty on Aug 24, 2009 3:38:01 GMT -5
Fixed the link tags for you. Why the hell can't America just switch over to metric, it'd be so much easier! Oh, thank you, I did not see that. And you're right, metric makes so much more sense. You know, thanks to "drug culture", a whole generation has grown up with metric, so it wouldn't be all that difficult a switch....
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Post by RavynousHunter on Aug 25, 2009 16:08:06 GMT -5
Huh...I use metrics because I watch too much Star Trek.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Aug 25, 2009 16:15:52 GMT -5
Switchover to metric does not work, trust me, my generation were taught metric, but the older generations all used imperial, as such no one can communicate measurements in any meaningful way because we all use different scales for different things.
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Post by Oriet on Aug 26, 2009 1:10:40 GMT -5
I use metric cause it makes more sense and is easier for me. Causes some problems cause I still live in the states, but I don't care.
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starbrewer
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God can go to hell
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Post by starbrewer on Sept 18, 2009 16:20:31 GMT -5
hell could be the core of a star. The core of the sun has a density of 150 grams per cc. Water is 1 gram per cc, mercury is 13.55 grams per cc. With a temperature of millions of kelvins, and plasma state, so every nucleus and electron acts as a particle of gas in the PV=nRT equation, the pressure would be enormous.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Sept 18, 2009 20:29:08 GMT -5
Fixed the link tags for you. Why the hell can't America just switch over to metric, it'd be so much easier! You know who else used the metric system? Napoleon. You know who else was a dictator? Hitler. Yeah. Think about that. I know I won't. I'd like to point out that Napoleon Bonaparte was an Emperor. A bit of a dick Emperor, too. There's a reason he got booted from power and exiled. Brilliant general. Shitty as far as leading a nation, though. So yeah. Though I'd have to look to see if metric had actually risen to common use by Napoleon's era. To be honest, I'd be more scared of hell if it had a lake of molten Carbon. Pure carbon. You may ask why. Well, for one, pure elemental carbon has the highest melting point of any of the elements. It also is fairly rapid to oxidize at higher temperatures. Meaning that in an environment with oxygen, it burns before it melts. No oxygen would be unpleasant. No oxygen and the temperatures needed to make carbon a liquid? Thanks, but no.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Sept 18, 2009 21:25:14 GMT -5
Yeah, Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France. But that's like saying Hitler was Fuhrer. They're still dictators.
(Godwin.)
It's my understanding that he wasn't so much a "shitty leader," as he got really fucking arrogant & screwed himself over. People loved him, & he made a lot of advancements for France. Similarly, there's a reason he managed to become Emperor twice.
As for the metric system thing, I checked. I don't think it was commonly used, actually. I think he was one of the first leaders to really recognize the benefits of it.
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