Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

**mklotz** · Mar 25, 2021, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by IntheGroove

What's a cubit?

In the inferial spirit...four and a half hands, give or take a finger.

**Philip Davies** · Mar 25, 2021, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by IntheGroove

What's a cubit? How long can you tread water...

Roughly, from forefinger to elbow. Most encounter the word in the Bible (KJV) It’s before the walking on water bit.

**jdurand** · Mar 25, 2021, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by DIYSwede

From CNN yesterday:

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somebody watches CNN?

**lowracer** · Mar 26, 2021, 02:34 AM

Originally Posted by jdurand

somebody watches CNN?

it was a google ad.

**mklotz** · Mar 26, 2021, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by Philip Davies

Roughly, from forefinger to elbow. Most encounter the word in the Bible (KJV) It’s before the walking on water bit.

Also in the famous Christian proof that pi is equal to three...

"And he [Hiram] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26

**Karl_H** · Mar 26, 2021, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by mklotz

Also in the famous Christian proof that pi is equal to three...
First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26

and a footnote:

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**bruce.desertrat** · Mar 26, 2021, 11:19 AM

Well it could be three in that case, just need some dude whose arm is just a bit longer than Hirams...

**katy** · Mar 26, 2021, 11:26 AM

"The size of 2 American football fields, with cooling towers four stories high."

I for one haven't a clue as to how long an "American football field" is, or any other football field either.
Then again how high is a "storie"? Is that like in a house? An apartment building? a skyscraper building? Or?

It sure bugs me when they throw in these ambiguous measurements that they expect everybody to know perxactly what they mean.

**mklotz** · Mar 26, 2021, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by katy

"The size of 2 American football fields, with cooling towers four stories high."

I for one haven't a clue as to how long an "American football field" is, or any other football field either.
Then again how high is a "storie"? Is that like in a house? An apartment building? a skyscraper building? Or?

It sure bugs me when they throw in these ambiguous measurements that they expect everybody to know perxactly what they mean.

A Usonian football field is 777... jugs of maple syrup long.

A story is about the height of 36 jugs of maple syrup.

**marksbug** · Mar 26, 2021, 02:02 PM

long enough to egt the job done and done well....well possibly not so well as I have to do it over and over. a never ending task that never gets old...but I do.