Meme Thread... no politics

25.4

A pint is a about a drinking glass. An 8 once glass is about a coffee cup. A quart is a quarter of a gallon and is a bit more than a liter, 32 onces, and is typically called a "big gulp" at most convenience stores. A gallon is 128 onces, 4 quarts, 3.8ish liters, 8 pints, or 16 glasses
 

A Bar is not quite 1 atmosphere which is about 14.7 PSI. A Bar could also contain gallons, liters, pints, and glasses. 

OK, just one more...

*landed humans on the moon

New York Nick said:

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I think you are over estimating the capacity of "most Americans". Well maybe they could get it close between 1/4" and 7/16". 

An interesting notion, but it doesn't exactly explain why I'd buy .323" bullets to reload 8mm Mauser cartridges.

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

Much like Ford engine displacements, the number doesn't actually correlate to any measurement you might do.

(How many 4x3.5" V8s did they make, and how many different displacements did they have?)

1988RedT2 said:

New York Nick said:

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I think you are over estimating the capacity of "most Americans". Well maybe they could get it close between 1/4" and 7/16". 

An interesting notion, but it doesn't exactly explain why I'd buy .323" bullets to reload 8mm Mauser cartridges.

I miss my Mauser...

(Sorry, not a "Mitchel's" fan.  It was the only Mauser meme I could find)

For 95% of the population, there is no advantage to the metric system so they have no interest in changing.  

Whenever people bring up switching to the metric system, I just think of the sheer logistics of it and how long it would take.
Every machine shop would need to change hardware on the machines, every bolt calculation would need to be redone, everything would need to be redone, and even then you'd still have to have left over stock for all the (now) obsolete machinery to keep it going till the end of its life cycle.

Doesn't even get into hobbyists that like old stuff.

Mr_Asa said:

Whenever people bring up switching to the metric system, I just think of the sheer logistics of it and how long it would take.
Every machine shop would need to change hardware on the machines, every bolt calculation would need to be redone, everything would need to be redone, and even then you'd still have to have left over stock for all the (now) obsolete machinery to keep it going till the end of its life cycle.

Doesn't even get into hobbyists that like old stuff.

There is a difference between switching the everday usage and converting legacy stuff to metric.  Switching would be easy. Converting would be hard.

1988RedT2 said

An interesting notion, but it doesn't exactly explain why I'd buy .323" bullets to reload 8mm Mauser cartridges.

.323 is the bullet diameter that corresponds to the 8mm bore diamerer. This is similar to .308 bullets go in .30 bores, .312 bullets go in .303 bores, etc.

Oddly, the official designation is 7.92mm, which it started off as, but the bores are closer to 8mm in many "modern" renditions. Most of the metric designations are actual bore diameters.

No meme because I suck at linking those on my phone. I will try to find/add on later.

I like that tires are

metric/ratio R inches

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

Much like Ford engine displacements, the number doesn't actually correlate to any measurement you might do.

 

(How many 4x3.5" V8s did they make, and how many different displacements did they have?)

And, which anal retentive Chevrolet engineer made the stroke 3.48 inches so it would damn well be 350?