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Hold la onionsWhen the going gets tough, the tough gets a large pot to melt the snow to take a warm shower.
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Not fake. Background story - With water service down, Louisiana mother uses crawfish pot to bathe children (fox8.com)
well, that's one way to kill a human.
If you have to, use a large rock or a sharp pointy object. Amazon has a small tool you can attach to the key chain to break glass.
How is that definition not arbitrary?Nautical miles are one of the only units that don't have an arbitrary basis - it's the arc length of 1/60th of a degree on the earth's surface.
I guess this is funny if you're not good at STEM.
Nautical miles are one of the only units that don't have an arbitrary basis - it's the arc length of 1/60th of a degree on the earth's surface.
I guess this is funny if you're not good at STEM.
Just rerun the calculations.what happens when the earth smooshes/stretches ever so slightly at the poles?
NIST, IIRC.I can't think of a unit of measure that isn't standardized. We have an entire federal department (within a department, I think)--NISA--that qualifies standardization.
That's literally arbitrary, as it can change based on the distance from sea level, *or* the sea level, for long-term measurement recording.Nautical miles are one of the only units that don't have an arbitrary basis - it's the arc length of 1/60th of a degree on the earth's surface.
I guess this is funny if you're not good at STEM.
Nautical miles are one of the only units that don't have an arbitrary basis - it's the arc length of 1/60th of a degree on the earth's surface.
I guess this is funny if you're not good at STEM.
How is that definition not arbitrary?
1/60 of an arc second varies with latitude as the earth isn't a sphere. The actual length assigned to the nautical mile was agreed to by a committee as a compromise.I mean, the whole metric system can be said to be 100% not arbitrary in origin
It may seem random to you, but it's not for two reasons:
1. it's a rather exact reference unit that can be reproduced. Just like a meter is defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second."
2. arc units (minutes and seconds of arc) and degrees were the original tools of the trade for early sea navigation