Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Delirium on May 15, 2017, 01:01:39 PM
Dave, you would have to color in a lot more countries that lost conflicts with Vietnam including France, Japan, Cambodia, Laos, China, just to name a few.
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Vraciu on May 15, 2017, 01:38:54 PM
Vraciu wins. Period, not even a contest, thanks for playing.
:) I accept this victory with humility and thanks on behalf of the fine Lunar Landing Project team at NASA and the US Metrification Resistance Movement. :rofl
Uh, yes. Most of NASA's vehicles and systems were designed and programmed in SI units (metric). Even the Apollo flight computer did all its calculations in metric, but displayed data and accepted input in imperial units, since that's what the astronauts were used to. The whole science of rocketry and space industry has been shaped by the weird American-(ex)Nazi collaboration. For example the reason "specific impulse" exists as a measurement of engine efficiency is because the US military on the one hand did all of their measurements in imperial units, while Wernher von Braun and his fellow Nazi rocket scientists did all of theirs in metric. Internally, both did measure their engines using raw exhaust velocity, the Americans in feet per second, the Germans in meters per second. The "specific impulse" measure arose so that scientists from both sets could talk to one another without having to constantly resort to the tedium of converting units or confusing the other party.
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: GScholz on May 16, 2017, 12:39:42 PM
See Rule #4
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Vraciu on May 16, 2017, 01:00:15 PM
Uh, yes. Most of NASA's vehicles and systems were designed and programmed in SI units (metric). Even the Apollo flight computer did all its calculations in metric, but displayed data and accepted input in imperial units, since that's what the astronauts were used to. The whole science of rocketry and space industry has been shaped by the weird American-(ex)Nazi collaboration. For example the reason "specific impulse" exists as a measurement of engine efficiency is because the US military on the one hand did all of their measurements in imperial units, while Wernher von Braun and his fellow Nazi rocket scientists did all of theirs in metric. Internally, both did measure their engines using raw exhaust velocity, the Americans in feet per second, the Germans in meters per second. The "specific impulse" measure arose so that scientists from both sets could talk to one another without having to constantly resort to the tedium of converting units or confusing the other party.
Yeah yeah,.
Hey, look, someone discovered Wikipedia.
Already had this debate before. I'm going elsewhere. Trophy in hand.
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: GScholz on May 16, 2017, 01:02:46 PM
Good for you :aok
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Shuffler on May 16, 2017, 01:08:25 PM
Excuse me while I go take a wikileak.
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Lusche on May 16, 2017, 01:42:37 PM
Oh Pipz, what have you done... :old:
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Oldman731 on May 16, 2017, 01:53:36 PM
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Vraciu on May 16, 2017, 03:36:38 PM
"Our Germans are better than their Germans."
https://youtu.be/1dSkX9VySOI
We didn't need Von Braun. We had our own great scientists. But he shortened the timeline. Americans are experts at FREE AGENCY. :banana:
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Brooke on May 16, 2017, 04:20:59 PM
"And then the Russians put our camera made by our German scientists and your film made by your German scientists into their satellite made by their German scientists. . . ."
https://youtu.be/gk7n3sWdhKo?t=61
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Brooke on May 16, 2017, 04:29:53 PM
By the way, my Vietnam data above was meant to be about the Vietnam war and only contained reference to the metric system because of the picture I was lampooning.
The metric system is vastly superior.
I remember in my younger days when the US made the attempt to switch, but it didn't work, mainly I believe because of only a few ingrained measures (miles, miles/hour, pounds, and fahrenheit) -- basically driving their cars, temperature, and weight of heavy things (like how much a person weighs) were the points of stubbornness. Everything else is fine in metric -- folks are used to nuts and bolts in mm (thanks to Japanese motorcycles), volume in liters (thanks to the ubiquitous 2-liter bottles of soda), and grams of things in food.
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: pipz on May 16, 2017, 04:34:52 PM
Hehehe I almost forgot about this thread. Glad to see its coming along. :rofl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajsNJtnUb7c
Can't upload my Pipz-Khan-Kirk Meme gif, but trust me it was epic.
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Vulcan on May 16, 2017, 10:57:09 PM
At the end of the day america hanging onto the imperial system is revealing of their deep desire to be subjects of the British Empire and worship the Queen of England.
Every other colonial country has let go, moved on and switched to metric.
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Vraciu on May 16, 2017, 11:14:03 PM
At the end of the day america hanging onto the imperial system is revealing of their deep desire to be subjects of the British Empire and worship the Queen of England.
Every other colonial country has let go, moved on and switched to metric.
Yes. They'd rather worship the globalist cabal. :noid
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: zack1234 on May 17, 2017, 08:35:45 AM
Yes the US needs more Queens :)
How are you today Pipz?
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Skuzzy on May 17, 2017, 09:58:19 AM
At the end of the day america hanging onto the imperial system is revealing of their deep desire to be subjects of the British Empire and worship the Queen of England.
Every other colonial country has let go, moved on and switched to metric.
Oh, you want to go there? I owned a Norton motorcycle which had no less than 5 different standards for all the nuts and bolts. At least we picked one standard to start with.
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Ramesis on May 17, 2017, 02:47:28 PM
Oh, you want to go there? I owned a Norton motorcycle which had no less than 5 different standards for all the nuts and bolts. At least we picked one standard to start with.
How dare you!
The French citroen CV had one bolt for everything from the wheels to the cylinder head, all the same size
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: Brooke on May 17, 2017, 06:53:26 PM
The French citroen CV had one bolt for everything from the wheels to the cylinder head, all the same size
The Apple iCar has only one bolt, not many bolts all the same size, just one bolt on the whole vehicle. But it is hidden, and no publicly available tool fits it.
By the way, did everyone notice, here? Zack said "French"!
Title: Re: Awesome upcoming WAR movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: BBQsam on May 19, 2017, 03:44:29 AM
Oh, you want to go there? I owned a Norton motorcycle which had no less than 5 different standards for all the nuts and bolts. At least we picked one standard to start with.
Did you park it over a pan to catch the dripping oil? :rock