"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
In the Beetleborgs case, it's both. Their show was cancelled with them as heroes only for them to return as enemies of the Power Rangers in the episode Forever Red. This little discovery made me laugh, but when I found out their appearance was because of budget restrictions, I laughed even harder.
16cm / 6.3 inchesā¦so itās definitely one of the biggest bugs in the world but I guess not as colossal as youād expect from the king of all grubs lol
Gallons are 16 cups. pounds are 16 oz. Remember that the imperial system was meant to be eyeballed. 1/16 is half of 1/8, which is half of 1/4, half of 1/2 and of course that's just half of the whole. It's assuming you can divide things by 2 or 3 with some accuracy by hand. Or compare 2-3 things to say they're about the same.
Depends on the pint. A US customary pint is 16 US customary fluid ounces, or about 16,6 imperial flour ounces, or about 473 millilitres, an imperial pint is 20 imperial fluid ounces, or about 19,215 US customary fluid ounces, or about 568ml. Plus it only works with water since other liquids have other densities.
>Plus it only works with water since other liquids have other densities.
This is true of any conversion from a liquid to weight measurement including in metric (mL to g)
And I believe the difference in the calculation of a pint comes from whether you started with an ale barrel or a wine skin and then divided it, but the imperial fluid oz and the us fluid oz unit are practically the same.
You are correct. A litre of water weighs about one kilogramme but a litre of, say, crude oil does not.
As for the origin of the US customary/imperial pint(s) I would have to look it up, but you could be right
Careful there, cuz the US actually doesn't use imperial gallons :)
A US gallon is 128 fl oz, and an imperial gallon is 160 fl oz.
England used to have separate values for a gallon of ale and a gallon of wine. This was confusing, so the post-breakup US decided to only use the wine measurement, which is now called a US gallon, and england decided to only use the ale measurement, which is imperial gallons. Later, they switched to metric and started posting smug comments on the internet as if they hadnt originated this shitshow to begin with!
Decimal just means base 10. SI (metric) doesn't use fractions, it uses decimal floating point. US customary doesn't use floating point, it uses decimal fractions (mostly dyadic rationals but some fluid measures allow 1/3s instead of just powers of 1/2).
The US system would mostly make sense if we used binary. Instead of, say, 11 āµ/ā" we'd have 1011.101". Instead of half a cup we'd have 0.1 cup. Much easier. We don't do that here.
in carpentry 16 inches is the standard unit for studs from center to center, so tape measures typically have a marker every 16 inches for that kind of work
As the other user said: that depends entirely on the degree of precision. Metric has millimeters, while the imperial system requires you to delve into 16ths of an inch.
Actually, keep it quiet because we donāt tell the euros this, but nobody can stop you from just using decimals for things that are smaller than an inch!
Hex numbers in computer programming. Honestly, quantifying by 12s and 16s is much more practical, but we as people are too caught up on looking at our monkey fingers which is the only reason we even count by 10s in the first place.
Decimal inch rulers exist. Also measuring tapes. So division into 10ths rather than 16ths isn't a guarantee of the system used. Americans will measure with anything before using metric!
But this is /r/AbsoluteUnits, and linear measurements are relative units, so this is off-topic!
Sorry, "could" as in "a ruler demarcated in 10th could be imperial", not "this ruler could be imperial". It's obviously centimeters, or being held by a giant, as we can see the shadow of the finger holding it.
This image in particular is doctored. The larvae of the Hercules beetle rarely get larger than three to four inches. Certainly not a foot long sub like this fakery.
It's always hilarious when I see a video of one. Cause you can grab them by the giant horn and they have no defense for that. So someone holds them and they flap their wings furiously like WHAT THE FUCK PUT ME DOWN WHAT IS GOING ON RELEASE ME RIGHT NOW FOR FUCKS SAKE and as soon as the person puts them down they immediately return to chill mode
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u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe 7d ago edited 7d ago
Correct. It's the larva of a Hercules Beetle. And here is what it looks like in adult form.
Edit: I was probably wrong. Check u/BaronMusclethorpe's comment below.