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Are ISO standard American football fields defined as 100 or 120 yards?
Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash
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Can we all stop making the football field/alligator/sedan/truck measure of length joke?
If you want to clown on Americans, quit using the imperial units at all! Be better than us, don’t stoop to our level and spit in our hair.
Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group.
You may see it has a clever, pithy joke but it is feeding American anti-intellectualism due to the pygmalion effect. Treat someone like they’re going to be stupid, and they’re going to be stupid.
Re: Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash
#13I couldn't find if this was an intra-cloud flash or if it was a sky-to-ground strike. Anybody know?
Space is 60 miles away, and this was over 500 miles. Maybe it hit the ground eventually, but the vast majority of the strike was definitely intra-cloud.
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#14First it's emails [0], and now it's lightning. What else is going to be stuck at just over a 500 mile range?
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Can we all stop making the football field/alligator/sedan/truck measure of length joke? If you want to clown on Americans, quit using the imperial units at all! Be better than us, don’t stoop to our level and spit in our hair. Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group. You may see it has a clever, pithy joke but it is feeding American anti-intellectualism due to…
> Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group.
I agree with your overall comment. I’m interested what value you’ve found in actually switching to metric day to day?
Re: Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash
#16"Aw, that's adorable." ~ Jupiter New thunderstorms wider than Earth are spewing out green lightning on Jupiter. https://www.livescience.com/space/planets/new-thunderstorms-...
Wow there is an absolutely batshit concentration of ads on that page
Re: Weather satellites detect 515-mile-long lightning flash
#17Interesting (to me) that the flash shown on the included diagram has positive and negative branches. That suggests to me that while it is one "flash", it is actually multiple discharges, one triggering others in a chain-reaction-like process. Anyone know how these things work?
> it is actually multiple discharges
This might be the relevant sentence from the paper (but I'm not a weather scientist)
"Events were only used in the standard GLM clustering model to delineate flashes according to spatiotemporal proximity (events within 330 ms and 16.5 km of each other form the same flash)."
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can we all stop making the football field/alligator/sedan/truck measure of length joke? If you want to clown on Americans, quit using the imperial units at all! Be better than us, don’t stoop to our level and spit in our hair. Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group. You may see it has a clever, pithy joke but it is feeding American anti-intellectualism due to…
> Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group. I agree with your overall comment. I’m interested what value you’ve found in actually switching to metric day to day?
I can drink from a marked 1L water bottle in the morning before I've weighed myself for the day and subtract the volume of water I drank so I don't have to weigh immediately when it's cold and I'd rather not be nude, which means I can take my ADHD meds without getting out of bed, letting me take them earlier which sets me up for success.
Calorie counts become more precise as well, when you measure in grams.
50kg and 100kg are intuitive bounds for healthy weight.
I don't know how to put into words how much more sense celsius makes than fahrenheit other than to say you intutively know that 0 is freezing and 30 is fuck me.
A kilometer is 1000 steps with an average adult stride length of ~1 meter. How many steps is a mile with an average stride length of 2.5ft-3ft?
There's some other stuff around cooking and sous vide.
it makes dealing with weights of liquids very intuitive.