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foreveryoung Member (Idle past 609 days) Posts: 921 Joined: |
Radioactive decay of Potassium 40
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Stile Member Posts: 4295 From: Ontario, Canada Joined: |
12/13 for me.
Missed 'fracking.'Terminology for stuff isn't my strong point unless I'm around the subject for work or something like that. I'll likely forget what "fracking" means in a few months from now again too. Use it or lose it!
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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13/13. Is a really easy test.
With the question on fracking, of course the first answer that came to mind was "oil", but since that was not an option it had to be natural gas. I'd be curious to know what wrong answers were chosen. I seem to have always known "nano", but it probably dates back to when I learned the metric system in high school circa 1967. Working later in electronics, I always thought it strange that no capacitors were rated in nano-farads, but many were in thousands of pico-farads. Too bad we never did make the switch to metric. The US/English system is such a terrible pain to use in meaningful work.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1471 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
There is no way I'm going to convert all the measurements in my cookbooks to metric and throw out all my measuring gear.
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1530 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
13/13
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs |
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There is no way I'm going to convert all the measurements in my cookbooks to metric and throw out all my measuring gear. The metric system is just so much better than ours:
But heaven forbid grandma having to change her cookbooks!
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petrophysics1 Inactive Member
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The verb "to frac" does not have a k in it. No glossary of oil and gas terms has the word frack in it. Frack is the result of screwball enviro-nuts and OPEC trying to make the word look like fuck.
I have designed and done frac jobs for over 35 years and it has been around since the late 1940's. Over a million wells in the US have been fraced with no problems. It's nothing new. On oil rigs there are generally 2 tours, daylight tour 6am to 6pm and night tour 6pm to 6am. Now if you are ignorant you probably read the word "tour" as being like "Last year I took a tour of France". Tour in the oil field is pronounced "tower" as in "last week I worked "night tour(tower)"". It's the word our with a t in front of it. The person who made the quiz up is from the east coast that's why they associated frac with gas and not oil. It is done on oil, gas and even water wells to increase production. What is going on is we have gotten very good at drilling horizontally for 2 mile or so through a formation so that with many stages of fracing we can make very productive a well that if drilled vertically through would not be commercial. This is a worldwide game changer concerning oil and gas, it's why OPEC doesn't like it and feeds BS to the enviro-morons here in the states, and they go out protesting something they know nothing about. Typical left lib crap.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1051 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
There is no way I'm going to convert all the measurements in my cookbooks to metric and throw out all my measuring gear. Where I grew up, measuring jugs look like this:
It baffles me why everywhere else wouldn't do the same.
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I thought she was talking about these things:
c = a cup, which is 8 ounces, or ~240 ml. 1 pint = 2 cups. 1 quart (which is a quarter of a gallon) = 2 pints. 4 quarts to a gallon. A gallon is 3785 ml. Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.
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Panda Member (Idle past 3739 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined:
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Japan doesn't use either 'dd/mm/yyyy' nor 'mm/dd/yyyy'.
Instead they use the far more sensible 'yyyy/mm/dd'. Now I am waiting for the rest of the world to realise their mistake and adjust their date format to the superior Japanese format.*taps foot impatiently* "There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god." J. B. S. Haldane
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
Odd how the U.K. uses metric in everything except their coins and bills, but in the USA that's the only place they use base ten.
These are things that can make you scratch your head.... Also: Astronomy has both parsecs and lightyears, which are roughly in the same magnitude of size. Just my tuppence.- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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Panda observezs:
{Japan uses} the far more sensible 'yyyy/mm/dd'. Indeed, I have to convert to this format often so I can sort by date!- xongsmith, 5.7d
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ringo Member (Idle past 438 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Percy writes:
Science isn't about memorizing the "right answers". It's about being able to figure out the best approximation.
I was expecting to see oil in the list of answers, not natural gas. Percy writes:
Case in point: my memory of what I knew when I was twelve might not be accurate.
I don't know what answer I might have given to some of the questions as a kid in the 1960's.
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Panda Member (Idle past 3739 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined:
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xongsmith writes:
The UK has an apparently random uptake of modern measurements: Odd how the U.K. uses metric in everything except their coins and bills Our food/drink is kilos/litres.Our alcohol is pints. Our petrol is gallons. Our body weights are stones/pounds. Edited by Panda, : No reason given."There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god." J. B. S. Haldane
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1471 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
And my ruler and yardstick and measuring tape and scales. Darn tootin, I like America being unique too.
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