What Am I? (Feb 2021 Challenge Question)

Data that disagrees with a perception.

GA!

This is a racist question, therefore I cannot answer it...

Hmmmm....old chemists never die , they just fail to react....Europeans and Canadians and Americans......I just don't know..YET. Impossible is not a technical term,

Isn’t North America and South America are all Americans?

So American scientists die in in seconds but are indifferent.

It could go either way...

Wuhan virus deniers.

vowel vowel consonant consonant disease?

Wow. More information I never knew I didn't know. Thanks !

I think you got it. Good answer. It's the millennium bug all over again.

Is it a spelling thing?

Or maybe a date thing (I could never understand why Americans don't follow the logical DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD way of recording dates)?

Good Answer

I've been thinking about an asymptotic bookworm starting at the back of a dictionary.

But I hadn't thought about the date thing. I see that the Canadians insist on the YYYY/MM/DD format which is I have to admit better than the more normal in the UK DD/MM/YYYY because dates in that format can be sorted with no manipulation.

Personally I always try to use 09/Feb/2021 because no one can possibly misunderstand.

But how do you think that scientists might record dates that would endanger them before Europeans and Canadians?

I like the Canadian way - it follows the world-wide accepted numbering format (1000/100/10/1).

It also works with filing date relevant documents. When saving documents I like to use the format 'NAME YYYY/MM/DD' - it seems to work well for me, it isn't as foolproof as including the abbreviated month name as you suggest, but the files do appear listed in date order.

Welcome to the Funny Farm!! Always good to have new members join the chorus.

Great answer. Now, the task is to assign a numeric value to those scales to flush out the rest of the answer.

Any reasonable habitable temperature for humans in either degC or degF is wicked cold in degK as you said.

25 is pretty darn chilly in degF.

72 is damn hot in degC.

What other common numbers do we bandy about in degC or degF?

BSR: Do you intend to flush out the rest of the answer? As in flush the toilet.

Or do you intend to flesh out the rest of the answer? As in discover additional information?

Good catch. Meant flesh out. But maybe we could flush out the answer from somebody?

Hot tub preferred temperature is 100°....

100°F = 212°C = 311°K

So you have your N Americans comfortable, your Brits boiling, and your scientists well blanched...

100 deg F = 37.8 deg C = 311 deg K

Or is it 100 deg F Comfy; 100 deg C = 212 deg F Boiling; 100 deg K = -280 deg F Freaking Cold !!

haha... yes of course....= dead in seconds

Somehow I confused 100°F = 311°K with 100°K = (-280°F)

No sweat !!

I think maybe this is what you meant to write:

100 deg. F. - comfortable

100 deg. C. = 212 deg. F. (boiling)

100 deg. K. = -280. deg. F. (freeze in an instant)

Canada started to go metric years ago, but then the US didn't follow suit as expected, so now Canada had a mish-mash of Imperial and metric. eg. Plywood is ordered by millimetre thickness, but still comes in 4' X 8' sheets. Lumber still in 2' length increments. Fasteners also still mostly Imperial. Temperature, speed, and distance, liquid measure in metric.

I think we would all like metric once used to it. But getting there would be quite difficult with all the tables, computer programs, etc, etc, extant.

Don't you build your houses with studs on 40.64 cm centers?

I still have an old code book in Imperial, but when we went metric everything was just directly converted. 16 inch centres is probably rounded off to 40 or 41 centimetres, but everyone still calls it a 16 inch centre. Tape measures are still marked at 16 inch centres. And the 2X4 and 2X6 studs are referred to in the new code in mm X mm, but everyone still calls them two by fours, and two by sixes - Imperial is a simpler way of expressing it. Metric has made things more complicated, not less (as was intended).

Also, the advantage of Fahrenheit is that there are more degrees in the range in which humans live. I'm still barely used to Celsius in weather reports. Between freezing and comfortable room temperature there are only 20 degrees in Celsius, but in Fahrenheit there are 38 degrees over that same range, enabling a more subtle expression of human comfort level for any given number.

I like to say that it is good to be 'multi-lingual' in measurement systems.

One of my co-workers is a metric 'snob' or 'nazi' if you will, and he likes to make a point out of expressing measurements in metric, even when it is cumbersome when the prevailing audience is measuring in imperial values.

When in Rome . . . .

When I was working as an engineer, but from a science background, I liked to use feet or inches and decimals. As that "other" type of people, they insisted on feet-inches-fractions. So I had to convert at the end in spite of decimals being so much better during the calculations.

Add building codes to my list!

You're right about the clashes and mixing of metric and inch systems. Think about tires now days for your car..width is expressed in mm and the height is a ratio of the width still in mm but diameters are in inches !! go figure, who makes these decisions??

Does everybody understand how the tire sizing measurement system works?

While mixing units is not usually advised, the combination actually works out pretty well in this case. Makes for easy numbers to handle.

For example the tyres on my Suburban: 265/70-16 or would you rather 10.43/70-16 or 265/70-40.64 ??

We're still pretty mixed up over here in the UK, some of us more than others: I still prefer Winter temperatures in Centigrade and Summer temperatures in Fahrenheit.

Kids used to amuse me about twenty years ago, if you were talking about a piece of furniture they would insist that they didn't understand feet and inches, but, if a few minute later you slipped into the conversation "How tall are you?", they always came back with an answer in feet and inches.

"...you slipped into the conversation "How tall are you?", they always came back with an answer in feet and inches."

And weight in stones??

Re: "I still prefer winter temperatures in Centigrade." - in Northern Canada no one is confused, because -40 is the same in Centigrade and Fahrenheit.

"I still prefer Winter temperatures in Centigrade and Summer temperatures in Fahrenheit."

I'm sure that was common on weather reports back in the 1900's, but it seems like ages ago. Gives us a strange feeling of good about extremes. I often switch between metric and imperial depending on what is being measured, without any rational explanation as to why. The UK is seemingly stuck in a mixture.

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It wasn't fixer67 with #31?

Agreed!

I am certainly willing to share the glory with fixer67, and all others who contributed to the thought process....

Can I have a leg or a thigh? Is it from KFC or Popeye's?

I would never be so restrictive, take your choice, it's all you can eat!!

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