Reno
The Studio Ghibli Fanatic
About 175cm currently. 
Because we are unique & Europeans don't wan't to become Americans, period.
Because we are unique & Europeans don't wan't to become Americans, period.
Your height? Brand new thread with poll!
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Masquerouge
Deity
Yom said:Whoever plays the smartass falls in a ravine.
Yeah, I know, man, I was just trying to come up with a rhyme, and I think Ass and face is better that ass and ravine !
The best would be to find a place that rhymes with -ass and is not nice. Falls in ... wet grass ?
EDIT : still the tallest...
It's best just to leave it as it is. Sayings lose some of their novelty and meaning when translated.Masquerouge said:Yeah, I know, man, I was just trying to come up with a rhyme, and I think Ass and face is better that ass and ravine !
The best would be to find a place that rhymes with -ass and is not nice. Falls in ... wet grass ?
EDIT : still the tallest...
Laissez faire, laissez passez.
Oh, and Xen and some other 2m+ haven't posted yet, so don't count on being tallest for long.
Mise
isle of lucy
/me watches Yom fall flat on his face in a ravine.
As for the Imperial vs Metric debate:
1. Imperial is easier to write in fractions, since it's base 3, 12, 14, 16, etc rather than 10, so you can count in eighths, sevenths, thirds, and quarters easier.
2. Imperial keeps the British feeling superior and powerful.
3. Imperial keeps old folks' minds active and for youngsters to divide by weird numbers in their heads.
4. A gram is not the SI unit of mass, it's the KILOgram, which makes the more logical prefix system fall apart.
5. A litre is a decimetre cubed, not a metre cubed, again ruining the prefix system for volumes.
6. Imperial units are closer to a set of natural units, and are therefore less arbitrary.
7. It's cool to see how many yards you've walked.
8. The blocks on the side of the pavement in the UK are exactly 1 yard long, so you can see how many yards you've walked if you've got small strides.
9. 1 inch is far easier to judge than 1 cm.
10. 1 mm is too small.
11. A pint of milk lasts longer than 500ml of milk.
12. A dozen of something makes sense in imperial units.
13. There are 24 hours in the day, 8 of which we spend sleeping, 16 awake, 60 minutes in the hour, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 seconds in a degree, 360 degrees in a circle -- are we going to decimalise those too? NO!
14. Metric units are more scientific, and make unit conversions easier, quicker, more intuitive, and more physically meaningful.
15. Base 10 is more logical wrt our numeral system.
16. Prefixes actually make sense (e.g. mili- pico- kilo- etc).
17. Metric units can be used in standard index form with ease (i.e. 3 x10^8 m/s)
18. There's this ball of marble or something in France which weighs exactly 1 Kg. How supercool is that!
19. A mile is a totally rediculous and arbitrary number of yards, which no-one can remember.
20. A litre of water weighs 1 Kg, so it's easy to judge how heavy your bags of shopping are.
21. Farthings and stuff are stupid. Are we going to re-imperialise currency? Hell no!
As for the Imperial vs Metric debate:
1. Imperial is easier to write in fractions, since it's base 3, 12, 14, 16, etc rather than 10, so you can count in eighths, sevenths, thirds, and quarters easier.
2. Imperial keeps the British feeling superior and powerful.
3. Imperial keeps old folks' minds active and for youngsters to divide by weird numbers in their heads.
4. A gram is not the SI unit of mass, it's the KILOgram, which makes the more logical prefix system fall apart.
5. A litre is a decimetre cubed, not a metre cubed, again ruining the prefix system for volumes.
6. Imperial units are closer to a set of natural units, and are therefore less arbitrary.
7. It's cool to see how many yards you've walked.
8. The blocks on the side of the pavement in the UK are exactly 1 yard long, so you can see how many yards you've walked if you've got small strides.
9. 1 inch is far easier to judge than 1 cm.
10. 1 mm is too small.
11. A pint of milk lasts longer than 500ml of milk.
12. A dozen of something makes sense in imperial units.
13. There are 24 hours in the day, 8 of which we spend sleeping, 16 awake, 60 minutes in the hour, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 seconds in a degree, 360 degrees in a circle -- are we going to decimalise those too? NO!
14. Metric units are more scientific, and make unit conversions easier, quicker, more intuitive, and more physically meaningful.
15. Base 10 is more logical wrt our numeral system.
16. Prefixes actually make sense (e.g. mili- pico- kilo- etc).
17. Metric units can be used in standard index form with ease (i.e. 3 x10^8 m/s)
18. There's this ball of marble or something in France which weighs exactly 1 Kg. How supercool is that!
19. A mile is a totally rediculous and arbitrary number of yards, which no-one can remember.
20. A litre of water weighs 1 Kg, so it's easy to judge how heavy your bags of shopping are.
21. Farthings and stuff are stupid. Are we going to re-imperialise currency? Hell no!
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
Hm. On reflection, I should have put the brackets differently; as it is, most people in mine will actually be shorter than me, thus understating the amount of shorties here.
Masquerouge
Deity
Mise said:
It's in Iridiated platinum. There's also the Mètre-étalon, a piece that is exaclty 1 meter in length, in Iridiated platinum also.
Both are in the BIPM (bureau International des Poids et Mesures, International Office for Weights and Lengths, somewhere around Paris).
The problem is, due to microdust, the kilogramme étalon actually weighs a bit more than 1kg, and the mètre étalon is a bit longer than 1 meter
Apparently, they're trying to define a kilogramme that do not require an "étalon", but use only universal constants (like Planck, Rydberg and such), define the mass of an electron using these constants only, and decide that one kilogramme is that many electrons. I got a bit lost, frankly, but hey.
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
The meter has been redefined a couple of times. It's currently defined as the distance light travels thru a vacuum during a certain fraction of a second (the second, in turn, being defined as the time it takes to complete a certain number of a certain type of oscilliation in a certain Caesium atom).
Mise
isle of lucy
Yeah that's how I heard about it actually. I read in a science magazine that the Kg wasn't a Kg anymoreMasquerouge said:It's in Iridiated platinum. There's also the Mètre-étalon, a piece that is exaclty 1 meter in length, in Iridiated platinum also.
Both are in the BIPM (bureau International des Poids et Mesures, International Office for Weights and Lengths, somewhere around Paris).
The problem is, due to microdust, the kilogramme étalon actually weighs a bit more than 1kg, and the mètre étalon is a bit longer than 1 meter
Well, I don't think there are enough universal constants of different units to define all the SI base units at the same time (IIRC we can do them all, but not mass). It also depends on what scale you want to use, which is why I think imperial units are actually useful at times (e.g. a foot is a nice way of describing certain distances), and just as "arbitrary" as metric units. I suppose we could define mass in terms of electron mass defined by some universal constants and then scale it up.
I looked on wikipedia, and apparently, the mole is a SI base unit??? I don't see why a PURE NUMBER should be a unit!
The Last Conformist
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An example of a "natural" unit for mass is the Planck mass, defined as sqrt(h*c/G), where h is Planck's constant (h-bar), c the speed of light (Einstein's constant), and G is Newton's gravitational constant.
It's about 2.177*10^-8 kg.
It's about 2.177*10^-8 kg.
boogaboo
Josef Popper 4ever
I'm 180 cm.
I'm also 65 Kg on avarage (68 at best, once was sick down to 59..)
I'm also 65 Kg on avarage (68 at best, once was sick down to 59..)
schmiddi
Prussian
180 cm (10)
6'3". I'm too lazy to convert it.
-0blivion-
Musically inclined
Turner_727 said:
190.5 centimetres - nearly in the next band
I am 5,10, or 177.8 centimetres.
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
Whoah! The short people (provisionally defined as those under 180cm) have taken over!
Masquerouge
Deity
Ah ah, still the tallest in 79 people !
Too bad the sample size is still too small to be significant. Since I apparently belong in the 2% tallest part of the population, I expect to be beaten in 20-22 posts.
Too bad the sample size is still too small to be significant. Since I apparently belong in the 2% tallest part of the population, I expect to be beaten in 20-22 posts.
