Re: Objectionable Material for Children

[Ronn Blankenship]

At 01:29 25-01-01 +0000, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>I have just watched the _Unbreakable_ movie. It's *very* good.
>
>But this is not what I want to say.
>
>They did a good job of translating all horrible imperial units to
>SI. Except once. They mention a runner that makes "400 yards
>in 45 seconds". What the hell is that?
>
>Well, I know that 1 foot = 28 cm (see previous message)

First of all, 1 foot = 30.48 cm (exactly).

>, and
>1 yard = an integer but weird number of feet (or is a mile that
>is an integer but weird number of yards? - oh, forget it).

1 yard = 3 feet
1 mile = 5280 feet = 1760 yards = 320 rods = 8 furlongs.

>So, lemme guess:
>
>if 1 yard = 2 feet, then v = 5 m/s (hmmm.... too slow)
>if 1 yard = 3 feet, then v = 7.5 m/s (hmmm... this seems to
>be ok)
>if 1 yard = 4 feet, then v = 9.956 m/s (hmmm.... for a 100m
>spring this is a very fast speed, but I don't think anyone can
>keep this speed for 45 seconds!)
>
>So, 1 yard = 0.84 meters

0.9144, actually.   (This is the only one I had to check; the rest were 
from memory.)

BTW, what product is sold by the yard (in the USA) but worn by the foot?


-- Ronn!  :)