Happy Tau Day everybody!

[pokerfan]

http://www.equipeducation.org/Downloads/The%20Tau%20Manifesto.pdf

[krispos42]

1. Oh, you're when of THEM

The Tauiban.





I do a lot of mechanical drawing, and I use diameters for virtually everything.

[krispos42]

2. He makes good points

Sounds like something we should transition to

[lastlib]

3. ...like the metric system...

[pokerfan]

4. ...and dozenalism...

http://dgoodmaniii.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/dozprim.pdf

[krispos42]

5. Well, we're using the metric system now

Regardless of what is used in casual living, the metric system is the choice of all scientists.

Engineers still use both, though.... at my place we typically use English.

[pokerfan]

6. I are an engineer

and can confirm that we use both which is really the worst of both worlds. Millimeters (metric) and mils (Imperial) is a common source of confusion. 1 millimeter = 39.37 mils.

The Mars Climate Orbiter was lost because because of a confusion between expressing force both in the metric term Newtons (N) and the Imperial term Pound-force (lbf).

[krispos42]

7. We call them "thous", as in "thousandth of an inch"

Or perhaps a better way to spell it would be "thow". But you get the idea.


Engineer fistbump!