Hypersensing questions

rodw wrote: I suspect its just moving very slowly. It took me a while to work it out...

Let me say it takes a long time to get to the max limit when probing backwards at 0.001 mmm (modern millimetres) per millisecond....

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millimetres

Great, a new unit. :woohoo: I was just getting used to millimeters :pinch:

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rodw wrote: .... (modern millimetres) ....

LOL, i did see Thor's sister making fun of inches and pounds on national TV.

snowgoer540 wrote:

rodw wrote: I suspect its just moving very slowly. It took me a while to work it out...

Let me say it takes a long time to get to the max limit when probing backwards at 0.001 mmm (modern millimetres) per millisecond....

:laugh:

millimetres

Great, a new unit. :woohoo: I was just getting used to millimeters :pinch:

:laugh:

Stuttering in sympathy with your dodgy Y axis

tommylight wrote:

rodw wrote: .... (modern millimetres) ....

LOL, i did see Thor's sister making fun of inches and pounds on national TV.

Here it is:

skip to the 3 minute mark.

"Lower sixth"... "oh we call that fifth" LMAO

Overall, I agree with Jimmy, I dont see the USA switching any time soon. Certainly they're not going to make an announcement "STARTING AUGUST 1, 2020, THE USA WILL BE METRIC!" haha. Also, seriously, can you imagine how many BILLIONS of dollars it would cost, to change all of the mile markers, all of the speed limit signs, thermometers, etc to go to a different measurement system.

Maybe as a start, I'll put the temperature in my car to °C. Baby steps :laugh:

I've said it before, but above all of the cost associated with switching, the problem is little/no sense of metric measurements here.

For one second, (Jimmy agreed with me here), imagine that IPS was standard everywhere but where you guys live, and the world wanted you to convert from metric to IPS... forget the whole "it's easier because it's base 10" stuff and pretend it makes as much sense to us as metric does to you. You'd find it hard to give it up, and think in "the other guys" terms...

Ah but us Brits teach our children metric and then when they get to 17 and learn to drive they have to learn braking distances in miles per hour as all the road signs are in mile per hour. Then also on gradients some are in % and others in 1:20 etc.