Just wait until they find out public schools are giving their children dihydrogen monoxide without asking for parental approval.
It’s found everywhere. They’ve detected DHMO even in the deepest parts of the ocean, and it’s been estimated that every single human being alive has at least some of it in their bloodstream. We’re fucked.
It turns out it is toxic to humans in large doses, but despite that it is still widely used by industry because it is such a cheap, abundant and potent solvent.
Just wait until they find out public schools are giving their children dihydrogen monoxide without asking for parental approval.
You can’t give dihydrogen monoxide to children. Fish fuck in it when there are large quantities of it.
Everyone should be aware of the dangers of DHMO! Millions of people die every year from it!
Educate yourself at http://www.DHMO.org
LVII percent of people are morons.
but why? you’ll still measure things in football fields, elephants or “large boulders” so it won’t affect you much
I especially love it when they use the weight of an airplane as a comparison. “It’s as heavy as a Boeing 747”. Even if someone had an intuition about the weight of something that large, they would probably be wrong because aircraft are relatively light for their size, it helps when you need to fly. Everything in a plane is made to be as light as possible, so nothing on board of it would weigh as much as the non-aircraft equivalent you’d be familiar with.
A base-12 metric system would be absolutely gorgeous. Geometry and trigonometry would be greatly simplified with a duodecimal unit circle. Our 360-degree circle is a truly ugly hack to make geometry play nice with a decimal number system.
Our base-10 number system would be as ugly to a duodecimal society as a base-7 system would be to us.
On the last point, a better comparison would be base 6 or base 14.
10 = 2 × 5
6 = 2 × 3
14 = 2 × 7
Or maybe a better way of thinking about it is the percentage of numbers that divide nicely in the base, as a percentage.
Base 10 has 2, 5, 10 = 30%
So maybe base 3 is the closest, at 33% of numbers being easily divisible.
Either way, 7 is a significantly worse base than 10.
Base-6 wouldn’t be bad at all. “100” in base 6 is 36 in base 10. Their metricated unit circle would have three times as many “degree” divisions as we have hours on a clock.
Base 7 or 14 would require something akin to the sexagesimal abstraction layer we use to make base-10 play nice with angles.
You’re not alone, but the idea of a movment to duodecimal hasn’t had traction in a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Advocacy_and_“dozenalism”
Also, ancient Egypt was hip to his idea: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/a/2881
Fun fact, you can count from 1 to 12 on one hand by touching your thumb to count your finger bones, as there are 12 of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger-counting#Asia
Well you heard them. American numbers only from now on.
Get learning, kids.
Now I ain’t sayin that’s a good system but I ain’t sayin it’s a bad system.
Straightforward enough. Dots and tics in fives. And a weird croissant for some reason.
It’s America, we count shit in stars and stripes.
