Anyone reading this should be familiar with the concept of the airspeed velocity of the unladen swallow.<\/p>\n
If you’re not familiar with the concept, then why<\/i> do I know you? Why<\/i> are you reading this? \ud83d\ude08<\/p>\n
Ahem. Sorry.<\/p>\n
Naturally, oddball weights and measures have a certain appeal. Err. Naturally? Why did I use the word “naturally”? Anyone know? Let’s try again.<\/p>\n
Oddball weights and measures have a certain appeal, as oddball weights and measures speak to the absurd, the impractical, and the genuine human desire to make things relate<\/i>. The problem with the Metric System is that while everything relates it’s all… unnatural<\/i>. Nothing natural weighs a kilogram. Nothing naturally grows to a meter in length. But say, “It’s grapefruit-sized,” and there’s understanding — we know what a grapefruit is sized like and even about what it weighs.<\/p>\n
But let’s say you wanted to know about the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum? Or the area of Wales in cubic furlongs?<\/a> How would you know?<\/p>\n Like one of those absurd scientific studies — like the energy expenditure required by Santa Claus to do what he does on Christmas Eve — this article is for those who like the absurd as rational as possible. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anyone reading this should be familiar with the concept of the airspeed velocity of the unladen swallow. If you’re not familiar with the concept, then why do I know you? Why are you reading this? \ud83d\ude08 Ahem. Sorry. Naturally, oddball weights and measures have a certain appeal. Err. Naturally? Why did I use the wordContinue reading “On Weights and Measures”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[4131,396],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-science","tag-silly","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}