Nope.
At least, not in my setup, and certainly not with my eyes; though I doubt most of the text in that one is legible to much of anybody, though the larger print might be.
That’s a great one!
Interestingly, the amount of sugar I prefer in my tea comes out to the same number in barn-megaparsecs and nanometer-acres.
And an acre, of course, is exactly 99 inch-miles.
Should have a five-word jargon phrase to describe this one, but my brain isn’t working very well right now.
Idiopathic Aesthetically Discriminatory Jargon-specific Pentalogophilia
For those of us with only a slight knowledge of science, what do terms such as inch-miles mean?
It means that you measure one dimension in one unit and another dimension in another unit. So an “inch-mile” would be a strip one inch wide by one mile long. 99 such strips place side by side or end to end would cover one acre of area.
The “joke” in the measurements mentioned is that they aren’t actually measurements anyone would ever use, but they’re technically possible.
It’s a unit of area. Square feet could also be called feet-feet.
It’s not generally a useful unit, because we typically use the same units for x and y when we talk about area. But if you wanted to talk about the area of a piece of duct tape 5 miles long, I suppose there are situations where you might says it’s 15 inch-miles.
Okay, so that explains it when it’s units of distance. How about batman-poods? (Two units of mass, or is it weight?)
Oily House Index
Most home owners would be under water oil if this were instantiated.
“…if you converted its mortgage to crude oil” is an odd way to put it. The denominator of the graph is the the price per sq ft of a home. The average mortgage will bear some relationship to the price, but it’s not equal to it, and it’s a liability rather than an asset. If I own something, I could convert it into something else, but it doesn’t make much sense to talk about converting a liability into something else.
We can’t really properly discuss units-based analysis without a link to this classic: Droppings
The part I like best is the aside about fuel mileage; bird poop is nice and all, but the other is actually useful.
Although his bird poop time to mouth conclusion confuses me a bit. He forgot the factor for “recency of car being washed” That one seems to have a very large influence.
That what-if is related to today’s
It’s not universal enough. Doesn’t have a D-minus, for example.
OK, let’s hang out together. You first.
A debate I have with myself every time wife & I discuss going out to dinner since we live amongst our flagrantly non-compliant heavily infected fellow Floridiots.
The absolute level of exposure, if we’re being careful, is non-zero but low. Conversely the incremental exposure compared to staying home is ginormous. Which is the relevant measure of merit?
Covid follow up to:
[Too late to edit.]
The closest thing I know of to such balls are Zorbing balls. You can’t walk in them, because the gap between the double walls is way too wide. They’re for rolling down hill.