Did the Author get the speeds mixed up on purpose, and if so, what was the joke? I didn’t get it.
What speeds do you think he got wrong? The raptors on the hoverboard?
Does m/s mean miles?, I think, is what I want to know.
No it doesn’t of course, what does it mean?
m/s is metres per second
Meters/second.
ETA: you say metres, I say meters. Meh.
The three highway speeds should have tipped you off about it not being miles…
Edit… OTOH, the Volume section claims a 2L bottle is 3L, so…maybe not.
Okay, thanks!
But I want to know Summer Glau’s temperature!
I’m curious about how he determined the volume of Summer Glau.
37°C: Summer Glau
15°C: Summer Glau trapped on a train with Howard Wolowitz
Hands-on experience.
Hijack: When I was a dumb little kid, I always thought it was “metres” when you were referring to a unit of measurement, but “meters” when you were referring to a device.
Eg/ metre, kilometre, millimetre, but thermometer, pedometer, barometer
But I learned the metric system when I moved in Canada and went to a French school, so I’m used to French spelling, while I think I ended up seeing words like “thermometer” written more often in English.
That’s actually true, most places.
The US uses meter for both, but the rest of the world uses metre for the unit, and meter for the device - they come from the same origin, but through different routes, so the spellings differed until American spelling reform started.
Well, he nailed the temperature scale - -20ºC and -30ºC are indeed fuckfuckfuckcold and FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
I’ve never lived in Boston, but having lived in southern New Hampshire, I don’t know about -5 °C being a cold day. That sounds like just about an average winter day to me.
Is Summer Glau really 170 cm? That’s quite tall for a female.
Hmmm… River…
Not really. An average White American woman is ~165cm. A bit above average, but not strikingly so - about 2".
He’s claiming the volume of a 2L bottle is 3L, not that the contents of said bottle are 3L. I took it as a joke about how they never completely fill the bottles.
I thought of her as more petite also, but IMDB lists her as 169.
It seems to me that the proper way to determine the volume of one Glau would be for her to remove her clothing and to completely immerse herself in a bathtub so we can measure her displacement. I would be glad to assist her in doing the measurements.
I think 1.5 m/s is really clipping along for walking.
I’m surprised he made no comment about -40 ˚C = -40 ˚F.
“Spit goes clink” is comment enough.