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The one guy you say cares, does his first name start with a B?

I agree it becomes pretty easy to visualize once you have an idea of what a half acre or acre looks like.

But when you want to actually do the math, for example figuring out how long the driveway will be if putting a 50x50 shed on a half acre plot. It's not as simple as it could be.

I recently relearned stuff like how wide a forty acre square plot of land is (1/4 mile). I have an 80 acre property that is 1/2 mile x 1/4 mile. Interesting to know.

Interesting. Yeah totally. I recall having to do such calculations when fermenting stuff like hot sauce and kombucha.

Like you said it's not bad once you are familiar with the converssions. And some math would also have to be done if one was cooking in metric - but those calculations would likely just be a little simpler and quicker.

The times that the imperial system has actually most annoyed me in life was when cooking certain things (fermentations for example) and having to deal with how many teaspoons in a 1/4 cup or how many cups in a gallon, etc. It wasn't too bad, but had to re-familiarize with conversions.

How many feet (standard small imperial unit of length) are in a mile (standard large imperial unit of length)?

The equivalent question using metric units would use two standard metric units of length ( i.e. meters and kilometers).

Yup! thanks, I actually realized I prob knew this one too as I've been delving into learning about acreage and such lately. Fun stuff.

Nice job!

I'm curious how knowing the acre/furlong relationship helps with knowing square feet per acre? Is it just that you have memorized there are 43,5602 square feet in a furlong and divide by 10?

I actually find imperial units and stuff fun and interesting. Recently I was doing some personal land surveying and re-learning the relationship between acreage and square miles. Such as forty acres being equivalent to a quarter mile square.

Interesting and explains why large parcels of land often consist of multiples of 40.

Haha. Nice work tho.

Not too often. Last time was not long ago tho when I was wondering how many square miles my 80 acre woods is. And how far it was from one side to the other. The answer is actually a half mile since 40 acres is 1/4 mile square. So not too hard to remember but I didn't know at the time.

But that's why land is divided that way to begin with - 40 acres being 1/4 mile square.

Not too often. But recently was wondering how many miles across my 80 acres of land is.

Heres the equivalent metric system questions:

1. How many meters in a kilometer? 1,000
2. What temp in C does water boil? 100°
3. How many grams in 15 kilograms? 15,000
4. How many square meters in a hectare? 10,000

I knew the answer to all of those and I live in the US. For the imperial system questions I only knew 2 off the top of my head.

Another fun fact there are 100 hectares in square kilometer. How any acres in a square mile? I have no fucken idea!

All that said I'm not saying we should switch. We already use metric for science and other necessary applications and hey imperial is kinda fun.

Answer these questions without looking them up:

1. How many feet in a mile?
2. What temp in Farenheit does water boil?
3. How many ounces in 15 pounds?
4. How many square feet in an acre?

Yeah we probably shoulda switched 😆

Except they did hit a ball with a stick. And I don't think beheadings were a regular part of the game though they were certainly a part of the culture.

I'm not sure, but perhaps you're conflating this game with one in mesoamerica where sacrifice and beheadings were seemingly common in conjunction with the game.

Thanks, didn't mean to omit. Added.

Can you help me to understand a few points?

1. The inflation in the first microseconds of universe that was faster than C refers only to space - not any of the matter or energy?

2. The expandsion of space that continues is only faster than C when added up over large distances?

3. Why do these theories assume the universe originating from a single tiny point? Would the math or evidence be much different if it had instead all originated from the size of a neutron or even a golf ball for example?

Bat origin is an unproven theory. One possibility is that the virus originated in bats and was passed to another animal where it evolved to become SARS-CoV-2.

Bats have really interesting immune systems which are really good at combating viruses. For this reason they may make a good candidate for viruses to evolve and jump to another species.

And since bats are so good at fighting off viruses the original virus would no longer exist.

Technical sidenote: keep in mind that COVID-19 is the disease associated with the virus which is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 or SARS-Cov-2.

Edit: added "severe acute respiratory syndrome"

I'm playing one of my favorite Senegalese bands loud right now!

https://youtu.be/LLlUsolsTWw

Beautiful. And I agree there's surely some life there.

Ha, yes thats the one that's usually posted I figured most people would expect

I'm pretty proud of my pun tho :)

I don't get it. Is this from something?

That's absolutely absurd.