And ode to joy

[Profpointy]

Just came across this. Kudos for thinking of the idea and even more kudos to the powers that be who signed it off !


View: https://youtube.com/shorts/JtlUf9K7IJc?feature=shared

 

[Pat "5mph"]

To hear the music drivers need to maintain a speed of 100km/h???
That's very fast!

 

[Profpointy]

To hear the music drivers need to maintain a speed of 100km/h???
That's very fast!

Not excessive, maybe 62mph or thereabouts

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Not excessive, maybe 62mph or thereabouts

I grew up with the metric system lol
100km/h is the speed limit for many intercity dual carriage roads in Italy.
When I used to live there it was considered a fast travel speed in a car.
Maybe it's different now.

 

[Drago]

I grew up with the metric system

Pah, nothing wrong with imperial. We knew where we were when speed was measured in fathoms per fluid ounce!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Pah, nothing wrong with imperial. We knew where we were when speed was measured in fathoms per fluid ounce!

Wasn’t it pints per furlong back in the 1930s?

 

[Profpointy]

Wasn’t it pints per furlong back in the 1930s?

One of the nice little features of the "metric" way of measuring fuel economy, which they do as litres per 100 km, ie the other way round from us; is that if you tidy up the units it comes out as an area. This is the cross section of the notional cylinder of fuel that you burn through as you travel. Thus we should really talk about fuel economy in square millimetres

 

[Profpointy]

To hear the music drivers need to maintain a speed of 100km/h???
That's very fast!

That would only be a problem for drivers with perfect pitch. Faster or slower it would still be in tune with itself even if transposed up or down

 

[Dogtrousers]

One of the nice little features of the "metric" way of measuring fuel economy, which they do as litres per 100 km, ie the other way round from us; is that if you tidy up the units it comes out as an area. This is the cross section of the notionl cylinder of fuel that you burn through as you travel. Thus we should really talk about fuel economy in square millimetres

Well actually... It doesn't have to be a cylinder. It could have any shape as long as the cross section is constant. Which I think means it's a prism.

Is this my most pointlessly pedantic post ever?

 

[BigSid]

Well actually... It doesn't have to be a cylinder. It could have any shape as long as the cross section is constant. Which I think means it's a prism.

Is this my most pointlessly pedantic post ever?

Yes

 

[Profpointy]

Well actually... It doesn't have to be a cylinder. It could have any shape as long as the cross section is constant. Which I think means it's a prism.

Is this my most pointlessly pedantic post ever?

And yet you say "pointlessly pedantic" as if that was somehow a bad thing

 

[Drago]

Wasn’t it pints per furlong back in the 1930s?

Don't be daft. That was distance.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Don't be daft. That was distance.

And height was measured in whelks