• Mark with a Z@suppo.fi
      8·
      4 hours ago

      We don’t have metric months, only imperial month’s. Yeah, you can convert them, but I don’t want to deal with the number of bee wing flaps per 13,7 minutes at sea level right now.

    • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
      51·
      4 hours ago

      Metric is for people who don’t have a floating point coprocessor in their head.

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        2 hours ago

        Yeah it’s so useful to know the division table of the units so you can break it down, like how a mile is 1760 yards so I know that half a mile is… uh…

        Guess that’s why the text uses decimal point miles.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 hours ago

      Also, air resistance was acting on the baby immediately after it left the hands accelerating it. So was she reporting peak speed or the speed several feet away as shown in the frame of the comic. Additionally, she could have easily avoided this ambiguity if she stated the hypothetical speed of the baby being as if it was thrown in a vacuum, but she didn’t do that either. Its just pure laziness really.

      • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        2·
        46 minutes ago

        also, reaction time for the average human is around 300ms, and, since you can only measure speed after looking at it for at least a little bit, which makes this even more undefined: is that the speed where she started perceiving the throw, the time she completed the calculation or the time she finished spelling it out?