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Someone contact Chris Hadfield! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Someone contact Chris Hadfield! (Score:5, Interesting)
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Still stranded on the Mun....
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Yes, but to be pedantic, most of my time would indicate the median value, not the mean value to use as the average. In which case Neil Armstrong would be the below sea level option at this point.
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Re:Someone contact Chris Hadfield! (Score:4, Funny)
You live on the equator?
Re:Someone contact Chris Hadfield! (Score:5, Funny)
I averaged my location (frame of reference, Earth) and find my average location to be the Center of the Earth.
Lucky you, I averaged with the sun as my frame of reference and over a year my average location is the center of the sun*.
* Assuming a spherical and not elliptical orbit, if you don't get the desired results tweak the model.
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Then my average position will be the Centre of the Galaxy - inside a Black Hole.
Yippee!!
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What is a "feet"? (Score:1, Funny)
Is a "feet" some sort of astronomical measurement or something? What is wrong with using something that everyone understands. like a "cubit"?
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There's only One True System of measurement: the Furlong-Firkin-Fortnight system. One "foot" is very close to 1.5 millifurlongs. One "meter" is very close to 5 millifurlongs. Silly antiquated systems.
For convenience, some people still use the archaic measures: 100 millifurlongs is a "chain", and 1 millifurlong is a "link" (one link on the aforementioned surveyors chain), and 25 millifurlongs is a "rod". Much easier to say than "millifurlong".
The other standard units in the "F you" system are of course t
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My guess is you were probably his only friend...
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As a fun aside, miles per gallon (MPG) and furlongs per pint (FPP) are equivalent measures as the respective units have the same conversion factor of 1:8.
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Google disagrees: https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_... [google.co.uk]
I fear the challenge is the multiple measures called Gallon and Pint.
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Feet are based on SI units. One foot=12*2.54 cm which works out to 0.3048 meters.
Yes, it was probably a rhetorical question; but a lot of people don't realize that some customary units have been standardized this way.
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Didn't someone do the Kessel Run in 1.2 quintillion feet?
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Or for you Brits, about the size of Wales?
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About 384ft (Score:2)
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Chris Hadfield (Score:1)
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So: My altitude is metric AND below sea level, you insensitive clod!
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Need to move to the Amsterdam of America, i.e. Denver
A mile high and getting higher all the time
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10% could be under averge sea level and 40% could be under at high tide.
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What century is this again?
19th in the USA, 21st everywhere else. Even the backwards British have mostly caught up now.
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If you don't like something, you can also stick it up your ass.
You and I have such very different avoidance strategies.
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It's the 21st. Fortunately we stopped Napoleon at Waterloo, so the french system of units didn't take over the civilised (English speaking) world.
By "civilised" world, i assume you mean the USA - because as far as i can tell, all the rest of the English speaking world use metric. Even the backward Brits use it for most things - except beer and babies.
Global warming/ice cap melting (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Global warming/ice cap melting (Score:5, Insightful)
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Ferret
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The sea level is not going to rise as much as 45.7 metres.
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The sea level is not going to rise as much as 45.7 metres.
Just because it's highly unlikely doesn't mean it's not an interesting thought experiment.
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Depends how much ice is melting, doesn't it?
If all ice is melting it is pretty close to 45m.
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Or perhaps that percentage of the population that spends much of their time on a submarine. While not just talking about time underway (far below sea level), just a daily workday while onboard the sub will typically have you ~10-20 feet below sea level for most of the time you're there.
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The Great lakes region is probably one of the best placed in the world to take advantage of global warming. Plenty of fresh water, weather that's not great (but not terrible) and getting better, safe from ice cap melt, significant infrastructure already, etc.
On the US Side of the border the problem is that the local government system is incredibly stupid. For an extreme example see Detroit. For reasons nobody can quite explain, there are 100+ different political units in the region. What (in a sane state) w
Altitude vs Elevation (Score:2, Informative)
I guess this poll is asking about elevation (height above sea level) rather then altitude (height above ground, usually). Commonly misused (or used interchangeably), but the two words do actually mean different things.
Or does the poll author assume we are flying most of the time... because that would be pretty cool too... Permanency-ed Levitation anyone?
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I guess this poll is asking about elevation (height above sea level) rather then altitude (height above ground, usually). Commonly misused (or used interchangeably), but the two words do actually mean different things.
Or does the poll author assume we are flying most of the time... because that would be pretty cool too... Permanency-ed Levitation anyone?
If you're a pilot, altitude usually means height above mean sea level, and is called indicated alititude, true altitude, baro altitude, pressure altitude, or density altitude (mostly slightly different due to which factors are being corrected for, but referenced to sea level). Then, we have height above ellipsoid and height above geoid, which come into play when using GPS. What you're calling altitude is called either AGL (above ground level) or sometimes, absolute altitude. Elevation is most commonly used
Geodetic datum (Score:2)
Correct answer (Score:2)
Live and work in NYC above 150 (Score:3)
9 hours ~ 210 feet
The average height where I live in Brooklyn is about 120 feet. I'm on the 4th floor (3*(8+1))=27
8 hours ~ 150 feet
2 hours subway - average height say 50 (below in some areas above ground, others at sea level - whatever)
5 hours average say 100 (split in different areas)
9*210=1800
8*150=1200
2*50=100
5*100=100
Total = 3200
Avg = 3200/24 ~ 133
However many people work and live on much higher floors. I used to work on the 55th floor. That would bring the avg way above 150
Avg altitude 85
Floor height 10+1 plus high first floor = (54*(10+1)+10)=604
9 hours * 675=6075.
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Cities in New York State by Elevation
http://i.imgur.com/jF2PFNI.png [imgur.com]
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wouldn't it be easier to use a GPS receiver (Garmin, GlobalSat, Android phone, iPhone) to calculate an accurate altitude instead of using Google maps? Just asking.
That depends if you want height above ground level or height above the ellipsoid.
jeez, conversion took all of 2 seconds... (Score:2)
260 meters * ~3.28 m/ft (or 3,28 in some parts of the world) = 853 feet.
I live in the US and work with both US and Europeans, so knowing at least rough conversions is a necessity. When I say it's a little cool at 16 degrees today it makes a big difference when I'm talking to US or Germany - that's like -9C or 61F. It may be confusing because I sometimes jokingly call it balmy when it is freezing.
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Why should I care about converting to your old and weird one-country-only units just for a random poll.. nah...
Really high. (Score:3)
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420 suckas is 2/3 of April.
One full April is 1/3 of a year.
Now if he's high he's light, and he prolly lit it on the way up.
So, something close to 3 petameters or 10 petafeet.
point of reference (Score:2)
I measure my altitude in reference to Lake Michigan-Huron, you insensitive clods!
Altitude or Elevation? (Score:3)
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Like most Slashdot readers, I live in a high-altitude balloon [xkcd.com].
More like elevation (Score:2)
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Elevation implies you are standing on the ground, altitude imples you are not touching the ground (ie flying.....) so I assume most people's average altitude is pretty close to 0 unless you're a pilot or astronaut.
"the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level"
So, altitude can refer to either sea or ground level.
Where are the Dutch Dotters? (Score:1)
So few voters below seal level? King's Day celebrations haven't started yet!
too many slashdotters (Score:3)
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Or Boston, Washington DC, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore, Cairo, Baghdad, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, or most of the other major cities in the world. A very large fraction of the world lives either on or close to a coast, or on a low relief plain.
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Must live in NYC, the bay area or Seattle area. Way too many people along the coast. Where are all those Denver contributors?
Not really, Most of Seattle (~300-440'), Dallas (430'), and St. Louis (465') are in the same category. Most of the country is under 1000' which can be reached in a 10 minute drive from the shore in Seattle.
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The 5280' mark is on the steps of the state capitol
Not just one... three! [wikipedia.org]
"Additionally, the official elevation of Denver is measured outside the west entrance to the building, where the fifteenth step is engraved with the words "One Mile Above Sea Level." From this step, at 5,280 feet (1,609 m), the sun can be seen setting behind the Rocky Mountains. A second mile high marker was set in the 18th step in 1969 when Colorado State University students resurveyed the elevation. In 2003, a more accurate measurement was made with modern means, and the 13th step was identified as being one mile (1.6 km) high, where a 3rd marker was installed."
The colored seats at Coors Field are pretty cool too - https://commons.wikimedia.org/... [wikimedia.org]
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About 600 feet downhill from here in Parker (official elevation 5,900 ft.) but more like 700 ft. downhill from our house according to my GPS. I figure I spend enough time in the mountains (~10,000 ft. to ~11,000 ft.) that it balances out me visiting folks in flat land.
Cheers,
Dave
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Ik woon in Nieuw Holland.
Assuming Elevation (Score:3)
So a bit over a mile high here in Denver :)
Actual Altitude though would be zero plus/minus a couple of feet as I work on the ground floor.
[John]
some of one, some of the other (Score:2)
I'm only below sea level when I go down south of the Lake (it's really interesting to be in a place where the water level in the canals is higher than the streets. Or higher than the second floor of your house, in some places.
On the other hand, I spend most of my time north of the Lake, and that puts me a good five or six feet above sealevel....
Correctly incorrect units (Score:2)
I just got back from a vacation in Australia, and was annoyed that the in-flight display thingy insisted on displaying everything in "correct" units.
Showing the plane's altitude as 10,668 meters is all well and good, but is missing the point. Even a pilot from New Zealand (I was flying Air New Zealand) would have given the altitude as 35,000 feet. Flight level 350, strictly speaking, but few non-aviators would know what that meant.
Yes, I know they use metric altitudes and flight levels in Russia and Chi
Re:Correctly incorrect units (Score:4, Insightful)
But the in flight display is for the average passenger, not the pilot. Telling them that they are flying at 10,668 metres allows them to get a 'feel' for what that means, since they can compare it with things they know. Most people have a rough idea that Everest is almost 9 km in elevation (8848 metres), for instance. The Aussies on the flight would mentally compare it to Mt. Kosciusko which they are likely to know is a little over 2200 metres. Many would also know roughly what elevation their home city was at etc, or the height of famous tall buildings, in metres.
Quoting it in feet doesn't help anyone except pilots and Americans. But having said that, every in-flight map system I've ever seen (not that I've seen them all, but I do fly a lot, including between the US and Australia) alternates between metric and imperial measurements (it'll be metric for one cycle through the speed/altitude/time remaining/map cycle, then imperial for the next cycle).
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If they used reasonable numbers of significant figures I wouldn't mind so much. Since the altitude is specified to three significant figures (FL350), how about 10.7 km? The Air New Zealand system only did metric, BTW.
A later flight (Air Canada) had the bilingual in-flight thingy giving U.S.-bastardized units in English, and metric units (with, as usual, too many significant figures) in French.
...laura
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I just got back from a vacation in Australia, and was annoyed that the in-flight display thingy insisted
on displaying everything in "correct" units.
Really? Every intercontinental flight i've ever been on (quite a few, but none in the last 5 years) has shown altitude, speed, etc, in both normal and retarded units. Switching entirely to metric must be new - and is a welcome change, because it was mildly irritating waiting for the miles to change to kilometers.
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Switching entirely to metric must be new - and is a welcome change, because it was mildly irritating waiting for the miles to change to kilometers.
Fully agree on that.
Answered the metric option (Score:2)
Picked the metric elevation option, but my actual elevation is ~700 metres.
Being in a fully metric country, I don't have even the slightest bit of innate feel for feet, especially for large numbers such as elevation unfortunately. It's around ~2300 ft apparently. I ~do~ have a somewhat decent feel for converting temperatures to F and distances in km to miles, but that's about it. Feet, inches, ounces (both as volume and weight), gallons etc I haven't got even the slightest knowledge of...
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Switching from meter to feet is easy, just divide by 3, that is close enough.
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3 feet in a metre? Nasty hobbitses with their 33.3cm hairy feet
feet? (Score:2)
My feet are on the ground, which is at an elevation of about 3 meters.
This is considered quite high in my country (The Netherlands) as it is above sea level.
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Neither have I, but you know.
* France is part of the Netherlands, right? I can never get those straight.
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All users not speaking English make already effort to write in English on this site. The metric system is more an USA only internal problem that anything wrong in any other place in the world; even the USA government agree on this.
NYC is odd (Score:2)
I live in NYC, so basically sea level, but both my apartment (25th floor) and my office (22nd floor) would be above 150 feet.
I live below sea level (Score:2)
I'm in Amsterdam. Everything here is below sea level.
Missing option (Score:2)
I get high with Cowboy Neal
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How fat is your old lady?
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How fat is your old lady?
Well at 5cm off the floor it sounds like she's got a slow leak and needs to be reinflated.
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could be the "wife" is a fleshlight without the container, some people use them that way
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This site is for people who are smart enough and educated enough to be able to use both equally well.
But if all you can handle is division by ten, we've got a special handicapped section Just For You!
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No, I also can multiply by ten.
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So, please, is this a site for imperial fucktards, or one for geeks and nerds who use the metric system like every other human being on this planet?
Slashdot has openly been a U.S.-centric site and has been from the beginning.
And...?
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According to the poll result at this moment, around 30% of ./ users disagree, not counting the users that have do the conversion and voted for an altitude in feet. So a safe beat is at least 1/3 users are not from the USA. This is not a small proportion.
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I would assume that far over 50% are not from the US. I easily had given my altitude in feet, (a bit more than 300), but liked the "insensitive clod" option more ;D
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Sooner or later, DICE will get rid of this website. I don't think it fits into the "DHI" portfolio.
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I don't believe it is a crock -- most people know roughly what their elevation is -- if not Google is your friend. I grew up around Allentown (actually Macungie) and I knew it was around 400 ft back in the '70s, long before Google was even a thought. I now live in Louisville, KY (Ohio RIver Valley) and we are at 550-600 ft above sea level depending where you are (I'm closer to 600 ft). For y'all who think in Metric, that's 122 meters, 168 meters, and 183 meters, rounded.
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AGL or MSL?
WGS84.