Unit conversion for engineers, scientists, and strange thinkers
by Ben B.Boothe, Sr. | Sunday, April 15, 2007, 12:00 PM (CDT)
Occasionally we see something that you might find helpful or entertaining to pass on to others.
I hope these UNIT CONVERSIONS, are useful and fun for you. They are in scientific language and therefore international in scope.
They can enliven any dinner party. Just tell them you found them at: www.bootheglobalperspectives.com
- Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter as a reflection of 3.141592653589793 = Eskimo Pi
- 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
- 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microScope
- Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
- Weight one evangelist carries with God = 1 Billygram
- Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
- 16.5 feet in the Twilght Zone = 1 Rod Serling
- Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
- 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
- Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
- Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
- 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
- 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
- 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
- 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
- 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
- 52 cards = 1 decacards
- 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
- 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
- 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
- 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
- 10 rations = 1 decoration
- 100 rations = 1 c-ration
- 2 monograms = 1 diagram
- 4 nickles = 2 paradigms
- 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League
- More than a million Latin Americans, in George W's language = Brazilian
- FINAL ONE: 18 ounces of tiny Shitzu puppy named Latte = Cotton Pickin' Dog!