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  • TeghaineTeghaine Cape Town - South Africa - Africa (thatcontinentthatlookslikesouthamerica)
    @Eld mush!!
  • AradorArador
    Worse as in now you first have to figure out which Imperial system the measurement is in to convert it since both use the same names for units. 

    From what I understand from my American friends in the engineering field, metric is already mostly used in those fields and others like architecture.

    As for time, I would not mind a metric system for it, but it would only work for hours, minutes and seconds for obvious reasons. Dates would be impossible. 

  • EldEld
    Yeah, the sciences certainly use metric of some form (mostly SI, but some still use cgs). And all our base units (inches, pounds, etc) are defined based on SI, anyway.

    Decimal multiples of seconds would be easy enough to work with in principle (1 ksec is about 15 minutes, 100 ksec is a bit more than a day, 30 Msec is about a year), but you'd lose the relation to the diurnal and solar cycles, so no one would actually use them (barring far future interstellar travel scenarios). Base 60 is actually really nice, in that it makes working with fractions easier (since 60 has a lot of integer factors), which, incidentally, is also an advantage to certain aspects of the Imperial system (such as having 12 inches in a foot). There was some debate for that reason over whether to use decimals for the metric system when it was invented, but the decimals won (I assume because it's easier to extend to very large and very small units).
  • TahquilTahquil
    edited February 2015
    Skye said:


    ...Estach? :'(
    We've (everyone I work with) has nicknamed  this as the choad-odile
  • TeghaineTeghaine Cape Town - South Africa - Africa (thatcontinentthatlookslikesouthamerica)
    edited February 2015
    Sorry for double post. I blame ZA Internet speeds and mobile sites. 
  • ExelethrilExelethril
    What snapdragons turn into after they wilt.


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  • MelodieMelodie Port Saint Lucie, Florida
    These seem like amazing flowers to have around Halloween.
    And I love too                                                                          Be still, my indelible friend
    That love soon might end                                                         You are unbreaking
    And be known in its aching                                                      Though quaking
    Shown in this shaking                                                             Though crazy
    Lately of my wasteland, baby                                                 That's just wasteland, baby
  • KresslackKresslack Florida, United States

    Crepes


  • HerenicusHerenicus The Western Front


    Obligatory shilling for the alma mater.
  • CynlaelCynlael
    Decided to play WoW again... Was legitimately playing, not trolling around... Wasn't even resubbed for an hour and:



    They will rue the day they decided to mess with Captain Foreskin.

  • HerenicusHerenicus The Western Front
    There's always Cpt. Forestkin 
  • ValdusValdus Australia
    Guy only has 2 bookmarks and one is the rants thread.

    Why am I not surprised he named his character after part of a doodle?

    Viva la Bluef.
  • CynlaelCynlael
    That's Captain, to you.

  • ValdusValdus Australia
    Cynlael said:
    That's Captain, to you.
    Silence, Doodle Enthusiast.

    Viva la Bluef.
  • SethSeth North Carolina
    edited February 2015
    image

    https://www.yahoo.com/health/is-this-dress-blue-and-black-or-white-and-gold-112194158507.html

    Which one is it: white and gold or blue and black? I see blue and black
  • MelodieMelodie Port Saint Lucie, Florida
    I see white and gold. 
    And I love too                                                                          Be still, my indelible friend
    That love soon might end                                                         You are unbreaking
    And be known in its aching                                                      Though quaking
    Shown in this shaking                                                             Though crazy
    Lately of my wasteland, baby                                                 That's just wasteland, baby
  • SkyeSkye The Duchess Bellatere
    I've looked at it a few times, it's generally always white and gold or a bluish-white and gold for me.


  • TrillianaTrilliana
    It's a trick with lighting. Top is bright, so your eyes see the blue as white, the black as gold. If you go from the bottom up, you see the true color - or as close as you can - which is blue with black lace. There are several other pictures of the dress, but in that particular one, it creates an optical illusion with the color rods in your eyes. 
    meh


  • AchimrstAchimrst Nature
    edited February 2015
    When I looked at this thing the first time it was black and gold, last night it was white and gold, this morning it was white and gold, now it is black and blue. idk the dress is possessed.

    Edit: First time I saw it, it was black and blue, not black and gold...
  • TristynTristyn
    Found a funny set of comics when I was browsing the Achaea Subreddit.

    http://imgur.com/a/40uD8

    One of my favorite of the list:

    Focus on results and you'll never see progress. Focus on progress and you'll see results.
  • TrillianaTrilliana


    An explanation of the dress thingy
    meh


  • KresslackKresslack Florida, United States
    Dress look blue and black to me, no matter how many times I look at it.




  • ValdusValdus Australia
    It's already everywhere else on the internet. Can we PLEASE stop talking about this fucking dress?

    Viva la Bluef.
  • EldEld
    http://seattlelocalfood.com/2011/03/20/sierpinski-hamantaschen-sierpinskitaschen/
  • AradorArador
    Eld said:
    http://seattlelocalfood.com/2011/03/20/sierpinski-hamantaschen-sierpinskitaschen/
    Illuminati pie! 

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