▲ 587 ▼ Metric system? Pffft.... (media.fedinsfw.app) submitted 3 months ago by rugburn@fedinsfw.app to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 78 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children) People clown on these kinds of headlines as if the average metric user has an intuitive feeling of what size 0.012 cubic meters is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] derg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) That’s 12 liters, or about 3 gallons. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hope@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago So about the size of my bathroom trash can, or the size of my mother-in-law's corgi, then. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FatVegan@leminal.space 2 points 3 months ago Tell the diameter permalink fedilink source parent [–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) To be fair, if you pick your scales such that the numbers read ridiculous, nothing has an intuitive feeling. There's nothing much intuitive about a plane flying at an altitude of 16 thousand feet either, no matter how much they closetedly fetishise footstuff, in just about the same way there's nothing much intuitive about measuring the size of a star in meters. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago Pilot here: in a weird way, a thousand feet is a unit. "Five thousand, Five hundred feet" is processed kind of like 5.5 altitudes. Bonus: traffic patterns are typically flown at 1000 feet AGL, so 1.0 altitudes, so pilots see that distance a lot. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] derg@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 child) That’s 12 liters, or about 3 gallons. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hope@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago So about the size of my bathroom trash can, or the size of my mother-in-law's corgi, then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hope@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago So about the size of my bathroom trash can, or the size of my mother-in-law's corgi, then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) To be fair, if you pick your scales such that the numbers read ridiculous, nothing has an intuitive feeling. There's nothing much intuitive about a plane flying at an altitude of 16 thousand feet either, no matter how much they closetedly fetishise footstuff, in just about the same way there's nothing much intuitive about measuring the size of a star in meters. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago Pilot here: in a weird way, a thousand feet is a unit. "Five thousand, Five hundred feet" is processed kind of like 5.5 altitudes. Bonus: traffic patterns are typically flown at 1000 feet AGL, so 1.0 altitudes, so pilots see that distance a lot. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago Pilot here: in a weird way, a thousand feet is a unit. "Five thousand, Five hundred feet" is processed kind of like 5.5 altitudes. Bonus: traffic patterns are typically flown at 1000 feet AGL, so 1.0 altitudes, so pilots see that distance a lot. permalink fedilink source parent
