Conversions

[angelwing]

CONVERSIONS

For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant conversion from feet and inches to the metric system, including all its Newtons, Joules, and Watts, here are some other useful conversions:


Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter:
Eskimo Pi


2000 pounds of Chinese soup:
Won ton


1 millionth of a mouthwash:
1 microscope


Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement:
1 bananosecond


Weight an evangelist carries with God:
1 billigram


Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour:
Knot-furlong


365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:
1 lite year


Half of a large intestine:
1 semicolon


1000 pains
1 kilohurtz


Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower


Shortest distance between two jokes:
A straight line


1 million microphones:
1 megaphone


1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles


2000 mockingbirds:
Two kilomockingbirds


10 cards:
1 decacards


1 millionth of a fish:
1 microfiche


1 trillion pins:
1 terrapin


10 rations:
1 decoration


100 rations:
1 C-ration


2 monograms:
1 diagram


4 nickels:
2 paradigms

[JonathanBelles]

Those are so cool.

[lurkey]

CONVERSIONS

For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant conversion from feet and inches to the metric system, including all its Newtons, Joules, and Watts, here are some other useful conversions:


Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter:
Eskimo Pi

Ratio of a moon's circumference to its diameter:

Moon Pi?

[lurkey]

About conversions:

Apparently, it's National Pi Day (3.14) and here are some of the Pi jokes floating around:


Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter?
A: Pumpkin pi.

Q: What do you get when you take a bovine and divide its circumference by its diameter?
A: Cow pi.

Q: What do you get when you take green cheese and divide its circumference by its diameter?
A: Moon pi.


Q:What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter?
A: Pi in the sky.

Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice cream by its diameter?
A: Pi a'la mode.