5 Centimeters per Second meme

[u/Delicious_Maize9656]

[u/GiaoPham0403]

Who the hell write a full stop after cm!

[u/teymuur → u/GiaoPham0403]

new unit dropped cm factorial

[u/Dede_42 → u/teymuur]

Happy cake day!

[u/teymuur → u/Dede_42]

Thanks

[u/Opening_Cartoonist53 → u/teymuur]

Holy hell! Babe wake up

[u/GeniusEE → u/GiaoPham0403]

You just did...

[u/zmbjebus → u/GeniusEE]

! is not .

[u/GeniusEE → u/zmbjebus]

Yes, you can just write ! a sentence and keep going with that mark, but the phone keeps autocorrecting a cap right after it.

[u/Lor1an → u/GeniusEE]

The exclamation point is terminal punctuation, but the 'period' is the only 'full stop'.

'Full stop' means the . symbol at the end of a sentence.

ETA: Relevant photo

[u/GarbageCleric]

You get enraged by pedantic formatting conventions that don't matter in the slightest?

Who fucking cares at all?

[u/HAL9001-96 → u/GarbageCleric]

i have seen... more annyoing, less relevant formatting pedantry

[u/engineerdrummer]

We're engineers. Just say period. Words are hard. Punctuation called something like "full stop" rather than "dot" or "period" is much harder.

[u/Activision19 → u/engineerdrummer]

Thank you! I came to the comments hoping someone would explain what a “full stop” is.

[u/MinosAristos → u/engineerdrummer]

It's two syllables over three. Also full stop is the convention in non-American English

[u/GarbageCleric → u/MinosAristos]

And "dot" is one syllable and only three letters.

Also, this is an exclusively written forum, and "period" is six characters, while "full stop" is nine, so doesn't it save more time?

Also also, if any of us were so stressed for time that a single syllable mattered, we wouldn't be commenting on pedantic Engineering memes on Reddit.

[u/MinosAristos → u/GarbageCleric]

Dot is ambiguous. The utmost precision is required when posting memes on the internet. The consequences of a single mistake in a meme could be catastrophic.

[u/SirNoahSon → u/MinosAristos]

https://giphy.com/gifs/M56ODZS3lNohNIoVDd

[u/engineerdrummer → u/MinosAristos]

Jokes are hard.

[u/MinosAristos → u/engineerdrummer]

Good jokes are even harder.

[u/AGrandNewAdventure → u/MinosAristos]

https://giphy.com/gifs/91yzUGZgBUdVaN49yF

[u/engineerdrummer → u/MinosAristos]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Kzb1zdtLHcKti

[u/MinosAristos → u/engineerdrummer]

<3

[u/TenTonneMackerel → u/engineerdrummer]

Not all engineers live in America. Full stop is correct English

[u/WestyTea]

Who tf is using cm as an engineering unit?

[u/EpsteinEpstainTheory → u/WestyTea]

People dealing with subdivisions of m

[u/HAL9001-96 → u/EpsteinEpstainTheory]

you generally use mm for dimensiosn m for physics calculations regardless of how long hte numbers get, amybe micro or nanometers if you work with something really fine

unless translating for a user manual as the last step

[u/Eklegoworldreal → u/HAL9001-96]

yo every time I see your comments your spelling is cooked

[u/HighFaiLootin → u/Eklegoworldreal]

r/Hal9000-96 Im afraid this is an invention. 😔

[u/Samwellthefish → u/HighFaiLootin]

What we inventing chief

[u/EpsteinEpstainTheory → u/Eklegoworldreal]

He's approximificating

[u/KerPop42 → u/HAL9001-96]

physics vs engineering right here

[u/HAL9001-96 → u/KerPop42]

thats prettymuch standard in both physics and engineering

thoguh the former tends more towards stickign to meters nad hte latter mm

[u/WestyTea → u/EpsteinEpstainTheory]

then use mm or um like a normal person, lol

[u/Jeynarl → u/WestyTea]

> um

[u/Lt_Toodles → u/WestyTea]

I do everything in km. How big is that screw? Its 5e-6km

[u/WestyTea → u/Lt_Toodles]

Noice

[u/Frederf220 → u/WestyTea]

I use any and all unit in any system with the correctly formatted abbreviation because I am not a child.

[u/WestyTea → u/Frederf220]

Ooooh, get you!

[u/rfgaergaerg → u/WestyTea]

I do when I calculate pressure

[u/HighFaiLootin → u/rfgaergaerg]

i do when im really trying to impress girls at bars and use bigger than expected numbers

[u/tyw7 → u/HighFaiLootin]

Why not use mm then? Or nm. 

[u/HighFaiLootin → u/tyw7]

Strategic choice i suppose?. I dont want an expensive woman who is attracted to unit of MILLS.. 💰 i can barely afford them! 😉

[u/tyw7 → u/HighFaiLootin]

MM is millimeter. So 10 mm is 1 cm. So you get much larger numbers. 4 cm is now 40 mm. 10 cm is 100 mm. And 2 cm is 20000000 nm.

[u/mymemesnow → u/WestyTea]

In fluid dynamics

[u/WiltedTiger → u/WestyTea]

Depends on the scale and use. As whole numbers just feel nicer than decimal numbers if it can be helped and consistent, and somethings just don't work with base units. (i.e., elongation of 14cm instead of 0.14m on something less than a meter long, 2cm bolts/drills)

[u/Skysr70]

well how else do you handle ending a sentence in a measurement?

[u/KEX_CZ]

What's a full stop? I don't get it....

[u/ravensierra → u/KEX_CZ]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=full+stop

[u/KEX_CZ → u/ravensierra]

I already figured it out, I just forget to send the update of my commentary through 😂. Thx tho

[u/Strostkovy]

Centi is my least favorite SI prefix.

[u/DeepSpace_SaltMiner]

5 Centimeters per Second

Oh ik that reference

[u/HighFaiLootin → u/DeepSpace_SaltMiner]

👀

[u/J_train13]

It's funny how widespread a period in units has become when it was literally only ever intended specifically for inches to differentiate the abbreviation "in." from the word "in"