today's EBay find

What's a meter?
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Nate The Surveyor, post: 421041, member: 291 wrote: What's a meter?

The length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds

We've got some vacuums here. Wife had one... It ate a piece of metal, and died... And my watch is not real accurate...
It's also the nemesis of construction plans.

Nate The Surveyor, post: 421041, member: 291 wrote: What's a meter?
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An evil invention designed to cause chaos and misery;)

Hmmm - decimal parts of a unit. What a concept.

Nate The Surveyor, post: 421041, member: 291 wrote: What's a meter?
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It's the gismo that tells how much water, gas or electicity was used for the month.

Nate The Surveyor, post: 421041, member: 291 wrote: What's a meter?
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Nate, Buy it and find out.

Nate the surveyor ask, "What's a meter(metre)

JOHN NOLTON 🙂

Nate The Surveyor, post: 421041, member: 291 wrote: What's a meter?
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Charles L. Dowdell, post: 421104, member: 82 wrote: It's the gismo that tells how much water, gas or electicity was used for the month.

.... in imperial units:

The chord of a one mil curve at 1000 meters...

22$
How could anyone pass in that.

I was reading a report from the USC&GS dated 1896 (give or take a year) and there wasn't a single use of feet or Fahrenheit. I noticed on USGS maps, at least post civil war, have always had metric graphic scales.

Someone asked "if we should go metric". And I thought we always have been.

Warren Smith, post: 421100, member: 9900 wrote: Hmmm - decimal parts of a unit. What a concept.

Like tenths and hundredths of a foot, or links?

thebionicman, post: 421118, member: 8136 wrote: The chord of a one mil curve at 1000 meters...

A central angle of 1 mil, at 1000 m radius, only subtends 0.9817 m.

(Mils aren't the same as milli-radians)

1 cubic centimeter of water weighs exactly 1 gram and displaces 1 mL.

Now. What the hell is in inch?

Larry Scott, post: 421142, member: 8766 wrote: A central angle of 1 mil, at 1000 m radius, only subtends 0.9817 m.

(Mils aren't the same as milli-radians)

When the kill radius of your cannon is 20 meters you can lose a little precision here and there. Kill radius minus 1 meter = error budget ..

Nate The Surveyor, post: 421041, member: 291 wrote: What's a meter?
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If you are introduced to a woman you had never seen before, you "meter".

thebionicman, post: 421171, member: 8136 wrote: When the kill radius of your cannon is 20 meters you can lose a little precision here and there. Kill radius minus 1 meter = error budget ..

I didn't think this was a ballistics thread.