Meme Thread... no politics

newrider3 said:

Keith Tanner said:

​​​​Km/h is easy for travel time.  Inthe city, 1 km is about a minute. On the highway, 100 km is about an hour. 

But 60mph is easier to convert to minutes when you see the sign with miles until your exit :D

Maybe it's because I'm one of those darn youths, but I think it's both important and not difficult to become fluent with both systems, especially in engineering, design, and fabrication. The rough offhand equivalent conversions aren't difficult to remember either.

I'm old enough to be one of the grumpy old berkeleyers. I do all my construction in inches and all my 3d designs in millimeters. It's not that hard. I guess that makes me bilingual. 

600 kilometers is 6 hours away.  How long is 450 miles?

newrider3 said:

Keith Tanner said:

​​​​Km/h is easy for travel time.  Inthe city, 1 km is about a minute. On the highway, 100 km is about an hour. 

But 60mph is easier to convert to minutes when you see the sign with miles until your exit :D

Maybe it's because I'm one of those darn youths, but I think it's both important and not difficult to become fluent with both systems, especially in engineering, design, and fabrication. The rough offhand equivalent conversions aren't difficult to remember either.

I'm bilingual and can quickly convert everything but temperature, I have to rely on known points for that one.

The primary school I went to would allow kids to wait for class inside if it was below -18C (0F) or so. Warmer than that, you go play in the playground...

Streetwiseguy said:

600 kilometers is 6 hours away.  How long is 450 miles?

Trick question!  You're are obviously rounding 600km to 450 miles and want the same answer, but the truth is no country with speed limits and distances measured in km will you be able to do that distance in 6 hours.  It's easy to do 450miles in six hours in this country, I've done it many many time.  But you can't do it anywhere else legally or even illegally but safely.  Before you mention Germany and Autobahns, nope not possible.  More and more of Germany has speed limits on autobahns and the areas that don't aren't 600km apart and that's not taking into account traffic, which will never alow you to do those speeds for long enough!

Joking aside in all seriousbness I have a rule of thumb in main land Europe that it takes the same time to travel X km there as it does to travel X miles here.  Places are further apart, population density is magnitudes less and so freeways tend to be more direct so average speeds between points are much higher here.  

And that's todays lesson from a shiny happy person pedant.   I should buy myself the following.

In reply to Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) :

I would like to point out that your picture is actually a shiny happy person pendant.

And you can do 600 km in 6 hours in Canada. Lots of open space. Heck, I used to do it regularly between London and Ottawa.

Streetwiseguy said:

600 kilometers is 6 hours away.  How long is 450 miles?

Come test that theory in Chicago. 

Appleseed said:

Streetwiseguy said:

600 kilometers is 6 hours away.  How long is 450 miles?

Come test that theory in Chicago. 

Nah, that person ain't from Chicago. That person will walk, bus, take the El, but they won't sit an hour in traffic. 

In reply to mtn :

To be accurate, it should say work and  Chicagoland.

Keith Tanner said:

In reply to Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) :

I would like to point out that your picture is actually a shiny happy person pendant.

And you can do 600 km in 6 hours in Canada. Lots of open space. Heck, I used to do it regularly between London and Ottawa.

I'd hope to average 120-130km/hr in open country.

Keith Tanner said:

I'm bilingual and can quickly convert everything but temperature, I have to rely on known points for that one.

I can delete this upon request...

In reply to Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) :

All good, except 600 kilometers is 372 miles.  Trick question.

Also, I used 600km because most people will drive more than 100, but they will stop at least once...

Anyway, I'm not talking accuracy.  Step out on the highway, see a sign that says "Destination 600km", you know you are roughly 6 hours out.  372 miles takes math and stuff.

Now... under 100 km, and miles works better.  Destination 45 miles?  45 minutes.

I'm also a fiscal conservative, but a behavioral liberal.  Let that stew your brain...