Ah......but it was an European that did that (The father of the good old terror-weapon, the V2, Wernher Von Braun, I would assume the Brits know his work quite well).
After his death, it seems someone at NASA (ok one of their partners at Lockheed) decided it was a good idea to convert all the old German recipes to teacups and spoons and this was the result: http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
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Ah......but it was an European that did that (The father of the good old terror-weapon, the V2, Wernher Von Braun, I would assume the Brits know his work quite well).
After his death, it seems someone at NASA (ok one of their partners at Lockheed) decided it was a good idea to convert all the old German recipes to teacups and spoons and this was the result: http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
See? Just like the Caffenol stuff! A German gets it right and it works until someone starts messing around.
And here is another incident: http://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/30/us/jet-s-fuel-ran-out-after-metric-conversion-errors.html
I would hate to be on that flight ^^
SO, to avoid your house exploding; go with the metric units, true story. ^^
But simply moving a decimel point doesn't work very well on increments of twelve. That was probably based on some inbred knave living in a flea-infested hole in the sod who had six fingers on each hand.
Somehow I don't think Drew and his roommate's college room was exactly "party central".How many cubits away is the moon? My college roomate went to work for NASA. He could do seven digit logarithms in his head, or cube roots from long numbers, but literally couldn't spell words like like "was" (waz) or "that" (thet). A typical Cal Tech physics grad.
I'd think that sugar or salt would work as an average chemical substitute for thisJohn I'd imagine your best bet is just to spend an afternoon measuring out teaspoons of each chemical you use and then weighing them. A few of each and then average it out. Should be close enough for your personal work - I expect you'll stick to grams for client stuff.
The trouble with other people's lists would be you have no idea the size of their spoons (they might be using real spoons out of the cutlery drawer) or whether they are heaped or level etc etc.
So if you have a set of dedicated volume measure spoons, so much the better.
I'd think that sugar or salt would work as an average chemical substitute for this
The nations of the world can be divided into two groups. Those that use the metric system and those that put a man on the moon. Nuff said?
Speaking of the metric system there is a unit of feminine pulchritude, the Helen abbreviated H. According to Greek legend she was so beautiful that her face "launched a thousand ships." This leads us to a more conveniend unit the milliHelen, mH. Each unit is worth one ship.When I was in college the science and engineering students would rate women seen on campus in mH. "Look at that blond she's a least 700 mH."
The old Rikuo motorcycle (made under Harley-Davidson license) I bought in Japan in 1960 had both metric and American threads. I suspect there was a mixture of Whitworth and American threads, thanks to mechanics making do with what they had. I still have a folding ruler calibrated in metric, English, and traditional Japanese units.So if you take a spoonful of hydroquinone crystals and place them all end to end, how many angstroms would that be?? I once sold Starrett tools to
machine shops and car dealers. Some of the bolts on import Brit cars had a mix of everything conceivable. Even the Whitworth system wasn't weird enough for them. Now you just punch a button on a caliper or micrometer and you can instantly switch back and forth between metric and English.
But simply moving a decimel point doesn't work very well on increments of twelve. That was probably based on some inbred knave living in a flea-infested hole in the sod who had six fingers on each hand.
Right now I'm a bit pissed off. I'm running the biggest Festool dealership in the Western US, and they've decided to convert the scales on some of their US products to Imperial scales rather than metric. This is an extremely diverse area and many of my customers came from Europe to begin with, while many others have UCB degrees. Now they're being lumped in with American "dummies". I remember the routine well. They tried to introduce the metric system in high school shop classes here fifty years ago. "How many pennies in a dime?" ... "ten"; "How many dimes in a dollar"..."ten"; How many millimeters in a centimeter?".... "Uh, duuhhh, twelve??" ... "Count your fingers, stupid!!!!!" "Uh, duhh... one, two, three,
fuhr, fibe, six, seben, hate, nine, ten, eleben, twelf". Bingo. Another inbred.
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