304:" for a month and a 100-clarke "cowznofski", for a year, the date of October 29, 2007 is rendered as "Cal 7, 201 C. M." (for Cowznofsko Madi, or "in the Cowznofski of our MAD"). The dates are calculated from October 1, 1952, the date MAD was first published. Dates before this point are referred to (perhaps tongue-in-cheek) as "B.M." ("Before MAD.") The ten "Mingoes" are: Tales (Tal.) Calculated (Cal.) To (To) Drive (Dri.) You (You) Humor (Hum.) In (In) A (A) Jugular (Jug.) Vein (Vei.)
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to wait out an upcoming snowstorm. The index is measured in cans of beer, with roughly one can for every 4 inches (10 cm) of expected snowfall (the index is not perfectly linear at its lower levels as originally introduced); thus, Griffin's six-pack would be recommended for a storm bringing two
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and other objects. The spherical shape makes it omnidirectional and perfect for taking a speedy measurement, and the open design also allows it to avoid being crushed by water pressure. Wiffle balls are a much cheaper alternative to using two reference lasers, which often pass straight through gaps
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Cambridge (Massachusetts) police department adopted the convention of using Smoots to measure the locations of accidents and incidents on the bridge. When the original markings were removed or covered over during bridge maintenance, the police had to request that someone reapply the Smoot scale
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of nine imperial gallons of water. The imperial gallon was originally based on the volume of ten pounds (4.5 kg) of water (under certain thermodynamic conditions). This gives us a water density of ten pounds per imperial gallon (1 kg/L). Using this as a basis of our calculation we obtain
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cartoon character. Mouse motion is reported in horizontal and vertical mickeys. Device sensitivity is usually specified in mickeys per inch. Typical resolution is 500 mickeys per inch (16 mickeys per mm), but resolutions up to 16,000 mickeys per inch (600 mickeys per mm) are available.
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An "ohnosecond" is the second after one makes a terrible mistake, such as deleting the wrong file or sending a text message to the wrong person, where the person in question can do nothing but say "oh no". The term is believed to originate from
Elizabeth Powell Crowe's 1993 novel,
1272:, a computer scientist and professor who failed one of his students on an exam because they answered "AI is bogus" on all of the questions. The Lenat itself is seldom used, as it is understood to be too large for normal conversation; its most common form is the microLenat.
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series of games, the Great
Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the
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encountered a particularly obstructive Royal Navy officer called
Commander Pouter, for whom the unit of Obstruction was named, due to his implacable opposition to any work being carried out in the field for which he was personally responsible.
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was judged to have an irritation level of 8.6 gkB, which, according to the magazine, "is so high that you'll need an oxygen mask, and is dangerously close to the 'berzerk' limit, which in Sweden is just over 9 gkB if the summer has been nice".
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prioritized his work over bathing, leading to a strong stench. Therefore, Greenblatt's coworkers conceived of the blatt as a joke, though the milliblatt was used more, as the blatt was so powerful it was "just about inconceivable".
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Subsequently, the micropouter was used, as it was hoped that no individual of a similarly difficult disposition would be encountered, and the pouter was too large a unit for everyday use.
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in 1969 from the design objective "never to let the user wait more than a few nanocenturies for a response". A nanocentury is one-billionth of a century or approximately 3.156 seconds.
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Quack words include 'energy', 'holistic', 'vibrations', 'magnetic healing', 'quantum'. These words are usually borrowed from physics and used to promote dubious health claims.
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equal to 0.00627264 sq in (4.0468564224 mm) or the area of a square of side length 0.0792 in (2.01168 mm). VLSI nanoacres have similar total costs to
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is 10 nanoseconds, the approximate time for a generation within a nuclear chain reaction. The term comes from the expression "two shakes of a lamb's tail", meaning quickly.
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Australian term for a very small distance, as in "he missed crashing into the truck by a bee’s dick". It is derived from the presumed small size of a male bee's penis.
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markings. During a major bridge rebuild, the concrete sidewalk was permanently divided into segments one Smoot in length, as opposed to the regular division of six feet.
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Sherman, T. H. (2012). "Development of an advanced neutron activation analysis protocol at the
University of Utah nuclear engineering facility". The University of Utah.
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was known among his colleagues for his precise yet taciturn nature. His colleagues in
Cambridge jokingly defined a unit of a dirac which was one word per hour.
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culture critic Peter
Hartlaub, this rates county fairs by the quality of their musical acts. Fairs are rated a scale of one to four Springfields, "in honor of
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of area used by nuclear physicists to quantify the scattering or absorption cross-section of very small particles, such as atomic nuclei. One barn is equal to
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A wiffle, also referred to as a WAM for Wiffle (ball) assisted measurement, is equal to a sphere 89 millimetres (3.5 inches) in diameter – the size of a
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The firkin is normally a unit of volume equal to nine imperial gallons (41 L). The "firkin" of the FFF system is the firkin of water, i.e. the
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uses the similar unit 'watt-hours per sol' in their meetings, and the team told Weir that they should just call them milli-pirate-ninjas.
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as a standardised unit for animal size reference. The agency defines the SGU in terms of other animals as shown in the adjoining table.
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that a listener intuitively infers from the timing of perceived musical events". It is named after the jazz pianist
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1 kilowarhol – famous for 15,000 minutes, or 10.42 days. A sort of
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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
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to replace the old "Crackpot Index" that was presented in 1998.
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Whittle, K. (2020). "Evolution of reactor technologies". In
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Developments in the Terminology of Physics and Technology
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System of Weights and Measures" developed by 19-year-old
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3552:"Too Much of a Good Thing – How much hype is overhype?"
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The standardised giraffe unit (SGU) is proposed by the
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2199:. American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
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3632:"The Wheaton and Other Unusual Units of Measurement"
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837:This facetious engineering unit is defined as 250
595:). The unit is used to measure the length of the
480:pointing device. It is named after Walt Disney's
3606:"11 Ways Geeks Measure the World | GeekDad"
2592:"How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement"
2143:"How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement"
2976:"Anthony Scaramucci measures time in 'Mooches'"
2457:", LAMS-523, cited in Lillian Hoddeson et al.,
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2093:"Google Search: 5 nanometers in beard-seconds"
1917:"The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures"
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589:International Organization for Standardization
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2429:International Bureau of Weights and Measures
2197:"From the AICGS Bookshelf: Out of the Tower"
2065:Physics Handbook for Science and Engineering
1352:Rictus scale (media coverage of earthquakes)
631:include the smoot as a unit of measurement.
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731:The nanoacre is a unit of real estate on a
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2332:"The Measure of This Man Is in the Smoot"
2221:Adams, Douglas & Lloyd, John (1984).
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2957:"Ohnosecond: What does ohnosecond mean?"
2174:(in German). Langenscheidt. p. 12.
2063:Nordling, Carl; Ă–sterman, Jonny (2006).
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2883:. Addison-Wesley Professional. p.
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1473:Standardised Giraffe Unit (animal size)
579:, who later became the chairman of the
2937:from the original on December 13, 2021
2814:"Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught"
2642:from the original on December 13, 2021
1173:, no. 1, 1994, measured irritation in
2974:Krawczyk, Kathryn (August 29, 2019).
2860:IBM Data Processing Division (1969).
2309:"Keyser describes his top five hacks"
2259:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2171:Langenscheidt Schwäbisch für Anfänger
1717:List of obsolete units of measurement
1551:Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre
1340:, scientists working for the British
841: – about a third of a
581:American National Standards Institute
521:A measure of distance equal to about
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3406:"A Treatise on Units of Measurement"
2752:"The Politics of Pundit Prestige..."
2359:. Penn State Science. June 25, 2014.
1727:Outline of metrology and measurement
1722:List of unusual units of measurement
1677:Minutes per Big Mac (alternatively,
474:smallest resolvable unit of distance
3694:Mahapatra, Lisa (August 20, 2013).
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2141:Rowlett, Russ (November 20, 2001).
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3761:International System of Units (SI)
3604:Madden, John (November 23, 2009).
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2997:"The Top 10: Units of Measurement"
2398:University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1912:Selected Papers on Fun & Games
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3226:. Faber & Faber. p. 89.
2791:Yglesias, Matthew (May 9, 2007).
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2123:Parker, Andy (December 5, 2017).
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1169:The Swedish video game magazine
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2040:This Book Warps Space and Time
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2793:"More Friedman Units to Come"
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3085:Creating Music By Listening
2925:Scott, Tom (June 1, 2020).
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3099:"Bananas are radioactive"
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2563:Klasson, Kerstin (1977).
2532:Hesse, Christian (2012).
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2486:Nuclear Materials Science
1957:Plant Signal Transduction
1369:Richter scale equivalent
1155:space adaptation syndrome
884:Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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3355:Raymond, Eric S (1996).
2255:Cambridge, Massachusetts
2201:Johns Hopkins University
1137:Dirac (information flow)
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3863:Quantum chromodynamical
3499:"Newsletter April 2024"
3287:. Series I. Episode 9.
3079:Jehan, Tristan (2005).
3058:. Putnam. p. 702.
1953:P.M. Gresshoff (2004).
1899:Encyclopedia Frobozzica
1597:fifteen minutes of fame
1463:San Francisco Chronicle
1222:A Brief History of Time
1004:The Electronic Traveler
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3740:Systems of measurement
3430:The Secret War 1939–45
3427:Pawle, Gerald (1957).
3247:Mullane, Mike (2007).
3202:"The Quackometer Blog"
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2666:Editor & Publisher
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