Conquer Club, a free online multiplayer variation of a popular world domination board game.
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 7:39 pmPosted: Sun May 12, 2013 8:03 pmDoomYoshi wrote:Give me some candidates, I will put up a poll soon.
I nominate BTU.
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 8:30 pmPosted: Sun May 12, 2013 9:00 pmA banana equivalent dose (abbreviated BED) is a nonstandard unit of radiation exposure, defined as the additional dose a person will absorb from eating one banana.
The concept is based on the fact that bananas, like most organic material, naturally contain a certain amount of radioactive isotopes—even in the absence of any contamination due to human nuclear endeavors. The banana equivalent dose was meant to express the severity of exposure to radiation, such as resulting from nuclear power, nuclear weapons or medical procedures, in terms that would make sense to most people.
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 9:52 pmWoodruff wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:Give me some candidates, I will put up a poll soon.
I nominate BTU.
I nominate the parsec - 3.26 light years? Why 3.26? Why not 3.25? Why not just 3?
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:01 pmMetsfanmax wrote:Woodruff wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:Give me some candidates, I will put up a poll soon.
I nominate BTU.
I nominate the parsec - 3.26 light years? Why 3.26? Why not 3.25? Why not just 3?
The parsec is not defined as 3.26 light-years, it just happens to be equivalent to that. It comes from the fact that a parallax shift of one second of arc, using a baseline of the Earth's orbital separation from the Sun, corresponds to a physical linear distance equal to about 3.26 light years. In simpler terms, if an object appears to move 2/3600 degrees across the sky if you compare now and six months from now, it is at a distance of one parsec.
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:15 pmWoodruff wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Woodruff wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:Give me some candidates, I will put up a poll soon.
I nominate BTU.
I nominate the parsec - 3.26 light years? Why 3.26? Why not 3.25? Why not just 3?
The parsec is not defined as 3.26 light-years, it just happens to be equivalent to that. It comes from the fact that a parallax shift of one second of arc, using a baseline of the Earth's orbital separation from the Sun, corresponds to a physical linear distance equal to about 3.26 light years. In simpler terms, if an object appears to move 2/3600 degrees across the sky if you compare now and six months from now, it is at a distance of one parsec.
True enough, yet I still find it frustratingly detailed. <grin>
(Also, I thought I was sort of making a joke.)
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:21 pmPosted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:24 pmPosted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:27 pmPosted: Mon May 13, 2013 12:31 amPosted: Mon May 13, 2013 12:39 amMetsfanmax wrote:Woodruff wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:Give me some candidates, I will put up a poll soon.
I nominate BTU.
I nominate the parsec - 3.26 light years? Why 3.26? Why not 3.25? Why not just 3?
The parsec is not defined as 3.26 light-years, it just happens to be equivalent to that. It comes from the fact that a parallax shift of one second of arc, using a baseline of the Earth's orbital separation from the Sun, corresponds to a physical linear distance equal to about 3.26 light years. In simpler terms, if an object appears to move 2/3600 degrees across the sky if you compare now and six months from now, it is at a distance of one parsec.
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 12:46 amPosted: Mon May 13, 2013 1:00 amDukasaur wrote:Woodruff wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Woodruff wrote:DoomYoshi wrote:Give me some candidates, I will put up a poll soon.
I nominate BTU.
I nominate the parsec - 3.26 light years? Why 3.26? Why not 3.25? Why not just 3?
The parsec is not defined as 3.26 light-years, it just happens to be equivalent to that. It comes from the fact that a parallax shift of one second of arc, using a baseline of the Earth's orbital separation from the Sun, corresponds to a physical linear distance equal to about 3.26 light years. In simpler terms, if an object appears to move 2/3600 degrees across the sky if you compare now and six months from now, it is at a distance of one parsec.
True enough, yet I still find it frustratingly detailed. <grin>
(Also, I thought I was sort of making a joke.)
I think you should be stripped of your Starfleet commission for not knowing that.
At the very least.
Maybe even imprisoned on Rura Penthe.
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 1:01 amMegaProphet wrote:I'll nominate the barleycorn, unless I can nominate the entire imperial system
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 1:02 amnietzsche wrote:NERD ALERT!!
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 3:16 am
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 3:44 amPosted: Mon May 13, 2013 3:46 amFalkomagno wrote:In Colombia, we have the most stupid volume/weight unit: Yipao. 1 Yipao is the amount of load in a full jeep (in spanish, jeep can be said as "Yip"):
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 3:48 amWoodruff wrote:MegaProphet wrote:I'll nominate the barleycorn, unless I can nominate the entire imperial system
I did not know that "barleycorn" was a measurement. Of crops, I presume?
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 3:54 amKnuth published his first "scientific" article in a school magazine in 1957 under the title "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures." In it, he defined the fundamental unit of length as the thickness of Mad #26, and named the fundamental unit of force "whatmeworry." Mad published the article in issue #33 (June 1957).
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 5:08 amsaxitoxin wrote:Falkomagno wrote:In Colombia, we have the most stupid volume/weight unit: Yipao. 1 Yipao is the amount of load in a full jeep (in spanish, jeep can be said as "Yip"):
between the sex with farm animals thing, and now this, I pretty much think Colombia is just the Arkansas of South America, except with hotter women
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 7:03 amPosted: Mon May 13, 2013 8:30 pmPosted: Tue May 14, 2013 7:56 amnotyou2 wrote:Anthour