I think America should go metric, but use the parsec instead of the meter as the base.

[Rabrrrrrr]

"Hey, Ralphie, hand me that 5.19*10^-19 parsec wrench over there?"



"Ma'am, do you realize you were traveling more than 4.4*10^-12 parsecs an hour?"



"And this house has a roomy 4*10^-32 square parsec sunroom attached in the back."

[datasuspect]

1. kessel run, my ass

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. What? No one else agrees with me?

Unbelievable.

x(

[DS1]

3. you know the rednecks would revolt with their own version of speed

stupid
fast
stupid fast

[TommyO]

6. And for the Bostonians, it would be "wicked fast"

[DS1]

7. So we'd need a latitude-based slide rule

to convert from stupid fast to wicked fast the further north you go

Honey, we just passed into 41 degrees North.

Okay sweetie, we're now going .89 wicked fast

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. And longitude for the midwest

"Hey, buddy, you know you were flyin'? This here's only a smokin' fast zone. Now you be careful, cuz that road construction area up ahead's been lowered to cruisin'."

[mainegreen]

4. I think we should go back to just measuring everything with our arms

"Hey, Ralphie, hand me that quarter ell wrench over there.."
"Here you go Jack!"
"Ralphie you fool! I'm using ells based on my arm, not yours! Geez, get it straight!"

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. And allow only prime numbers in the fractions, like 3/7 or 5/11.

"Hey, why are the wingnuts on my air filter labeled '197/29 Rupert Dick'?"

"Musta been an unliked Rupert upstream from the wingnut installation guy at the car factory"

[RadiationTherapy]

8. I saw a dog locked in a crate in Arizona! The crate was only 2*10^34 square parsecs!!!

Should I call animal control, or kick my husband in the nuts?

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Only if there's less than 2.7*10^-51 cubic parsecs of water in his dish

or if the temperature is more than 1.1*10^-7 Gigafahrenheits.

[RadiationTherapy]

10. You are so fucking cruel!!

A nut kick for you!

[Dr. Strange]

12. Nice post, Lucas.

A parsec is a unit of time. Everybody knows that.
60 parsecs = 1 parmin
60 parmins = 1 parhour
24 parhours = 1 parday

Parday, woohoo!

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. But 28,000 REPTMS an hour is more than twice as fast as 11,000 REPTMS an hour

(there's an obscure reference for ya)

:P

[TheMightyFavog]

22. From MAD Magazine's send up of Star Wars, right?

End of Line.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. That's it!

For whatever, that's the one line that has stuck with me oh these 30 years since first reading it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. *head explodes*

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. At a rate of 3.65*10^-11 parsecs per hour

[PVnRT]

15. I think Planck units should be the base measure

Hey, Jim, hand me that 2.54*10^65 Planck torque wrench, will ya?

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. That's a mighty big torque wrench.

I'd like to see the guy that can pour the steel for that one. Or the guy who can make the form.

10^30 m is a lot of torque wrench.

How do you pour a mold the length of 3.26 billion Milky Way galaxies, and keep the heat differential between the ends from warping the damned thing?

:crazy:

[mikeytherat]

18. keep the heat differential between the ends from warping the damned thing?

I would have thought, "a shitload of oxy-acetylene torches," but I don't know the shitload-to-parsec conversion.

mikey_the_rat

[PVnRT]

21. Oops - somehow, I was thinking of something else

The point still stands. Planck units are the fundamental units of nature, and if you disagree, you're a fascist puppy-kicker.

[KitchenWitch]

19. I prefer angstroms myself.

[kentauros]

20. In a way, we've already got things easily as complex

if you include mapping jargon like UTM and "Northing & Easting" :P

[meegbear]

23. If we use the parsec, then we wouldn't be going metric, now would we

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Typical liberal, hiding behind facts and the truth.

Why do you people do that?

[BlueJazz]

26. Oh Me....

:rofl: :rofl:

[Ptah]

27. I'm old enough to remember when parsec ran free in the wind.

And now, for the sake of absurdity, you want to corral them.

Even compartmentalize them so you can make a psycho-sexual, social-political point.

:cry:

[SoxFan]

28. Nice post, Palpatine

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. Clever retort, MCP