Black-Chinned Hummingbird trivia

[ralphreinert]

This is not a problem with the game as such, but the computer version reads this bird's trivia entry as "To display, males of this species will fly up 30 miles then dive, reaching speeds near 100 km/h." I believe the abbreviation "m" on this card means meters, not miles. 30 miles is far higher than Earth's highest flying bird can reach and is almost outer space. ;-)

[ResolutionNZ]

That's hilarious!

[Chewable C++]

No chance to re-record this? It does sound very silly.

[AronFJenks]

Not to mention - miles and kilometers in the same sentence?

And, everything else in the game uses the metric system. S0, yeah, that is definitely supposed to be meters. Every time I hear that "fact" it makes me laugh a bit.

Why on earth we still use a non-metric system in the US is beyond me. Well, no, I know perfectly well why we use it, but I don't want to go into a rant about the educational system here.

[Will]

The metric system is useful in science and engineering, the imperial system is very useful for everyday life and making quick judgements about distance and weight when you might not have the appropriate measuring tools available. Feet and inches for instance can be very easily measured with your feet and fingers, and you can learn how much a stone ways and roughly guess the weight of something based on your experience. They are both very useful measuring systems.

[Wylie28]

Originally posted by Will:

The metric system is useful in science and engineering, the imperial system is very useful for everyday life and making quick judgements about distance and weight when you might not have the appropriate measuring tools available. Feet and inches for instance can be very easily measured with your feet and fingers, and you can learn how much a stone ways and roughly guess the weight of something based on your experience. They are both very useful measuring systems.

This. The meter is the only human reference-able measurement in metric. I can avoid carrying around a ruler in the US when going to buy things in very specific sizes in a way that's not possible in any other country besides canada.

[AronFJenks]

Originally posted by Wylie28:

Originally posted by Will:

The metric system is useful in science and engineering, the imperial system is very useful for everyday life and making quick judgements about distance and weight when you might not have the appropriate measuring tools available. Feet and inches for instance can be very easily measured with your feet and fingers, and you can learn how much a stone ways and roughly guess the weight of something based on your experience. They are both very useful measuring systems.

This. The meter is the only human reference-able measurement in metric. I can avoid carrying around a ruler in the US when going to buy things in very specific sizes in a way that's not possible in any other country besides canada.

I do not understand.


If you need a hardware item that is exactly 3.5 inches, and it will not work if it is 3.4 inches or 3.6 inches, you can determine this at the hardware store without a ruler? How exactly are "inches" any more useful than "cm" for this purpose? Either way, if you need an item to be an exact length, you're likely going to need to measure.

[sarrowquand]

Originally posted by Wylie28:

Originally posted by Will:

The metric system is useful in science and engineering, the imperial system is very useful for everyday life and making quick judgements about distance and weight when you might not have the appropriate measuring tools available. Feet and inches for instance can be very easily measured with your feet and fingers, and you can learn how much a stone ways and roughly guess the weight of something based on your experience. They are both very useful measuring systems.

This. The meter is the only human reference-able measurement in metric. I can avoid carrying around a ruler in the US when going to buy things in very specific sizes in a way that's not possible in any other country besides canada.

I think you are just used to imperial for making judgement calls. when you don't need precision you can gauge metric and imperial just as easily if you are used to thinking in those terms and have spent years measuring stuff that way.

[AronFJenks]

Originally posted by sarrowquand:

Originally posted by Wylie28:

This. The meter is the only human reference-able measurement in metric. I can avoid carrying around a ruler in the US when going to buy things in very specific sizes in a way that's not possible in any other country besides canada.

I think you are just used to imperial for making judgement calls. when you don't need precision you can gauge metric and imperial just as easily if you are used to thinking in those terms and have spent years measuring stuff that way.

I wanted to write this same reply but I was not sure whether it would convince anyone who is highly accustomed to using the non-metric system.

[joesephjOSEPH]

report it as a bug.