29-11-2020, 10:08 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by JBR
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If metric (or decimal actually) is so good, why hasn't everyone converted to 'decimal time'?100 seconds = 1 minute
100 minutes = 1 hour
10 hours = 1 day
So 100,000 seconds = 1 day
Perfectly possible if we make seconds a little shorter in length,
as presently there are 86,400 seconds in a day.
29-11-2020, 10:10 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Dextrous63
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I believe that the French did look into metricising the time shortly after their revolution (during which time they also standardised the other unots of measurement), but it didn't take off.
29-11-2020, 10:13 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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The topic is scales.
29-11-2020, 10:23 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Dextrous63
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I was responding to a comment from another poster. But thank you for your useful reminder. I'm sure you're glad to have got that weight off your chest.
29-11-2020, 10:31 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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Perhaps the scales falling from one's eyes.........
29-11-2020, 11:11 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Dextrous63
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Or yours. After all, as you know, the metric system was originally intended to be defined in terms of distances from the pole to the equator. Since time was also defined in terms of 1 rev of the earth, which will also have a distance, then time and weight could be viewed as synonymous. Ie, 1kg being the weight of water in a cube of side x seconds of equatorial travel.
But we were supposed to be discussing scales according the moderator. Can we remain on that topic?
29-11-2020, 11:21 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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I know all of that.But we were supposed to be discussing scales according the moderator. Can we remain on that topic?
29-11-2020, 11:39 PM
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Re: Weighing machine
Originally Posted by Dextrous63
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I believe that the French did look into metricising the time shortly after their revolution (during which time they also standardised the other unots of measurement), but it didn't take off.
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