Weird Converter
Don't you hate it when you can't remember how many Weinermobiles it would take to get to the top of the Empire State Building, or how many Shaquille O'Niels would line up along the Golden Gate Bridge? What about when you need to know how many cubic inches of air one million dollars weighs, or baby grand pianos to Airbus A380s? Or maybe you are planning a party and need to know how many human stomachs a keg of beer will fill, or you're just curious how many Space Shuttle liquid oxygen tanks it would take to fill the Grand Canyon?
Well, if you've ever had those problems, you are in luck. Go check out the Weird Converter and convert unusual units of height, weight, and volume to your heart's content.
Well, if you've ever had those problems, you are in luck. Go check out the Weird Converter and convert unusual units of height, weight, and volume to your heart's content.
Comments
After all the conversion values I've collected over the years for my programs it would seem that my collection is sorely hindered by the lack of these. :red:
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/14/10 at 09:43 AM
Needs something involving bacon 😝
Posted by ANON in Nowhere on 11/14/10 at 10:19 AM
everything needs bacon! great find sam!
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/14/10 at 10:35 AM
Well, one of you still living in the land of round doorknobs needs to go measure a strip of bacon. Then we can compute how many strips, laid end to end it would take to reach 1) around the world 2) to he moon 3) to the sun. This if you also measure the width we can compute how many strips it would take to cover a football field. Measure the thickness and we can go 3D.
Now, go do it all after you cooked it (and before you eat it) and we can recompute based on shrinkage.
I await....
Now, go do it all after you cooked it (and before you eat it) and we can recompute based on shrinkage.
I await....
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/14/10 at 12:38 PM
I agree that there should be more bacon. I'd love to know how many strips of bacon it would take to fill the Grand Canyon...
Posted by Salamander Sam in Chicago on 11/14/10 at 01:16 PM
Thanks so much for computing the bacon stats Jake. Now if we can only teach all the others who don't understand the term rasher.. hehehe .. I bet many don't know Asda is a subsidiary of the American retail giant Wal-Mart and competes with Tesco over on that side of the big pond.
Posted by ANON in Nowhere on 11/14/10 at 06:17 PM
jake, are you absolutely sure about that 6 inch mesurement? i only ask because many men are accustomed to passing off 4 inches as 6. :cheese:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/14/10 at 09:31 PM
perhaps with the bacon, but otherwise i believe it is a perception problem scout. :lol:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/14/10 at 10:01 PM
too many dids, sorry
Posted by done on 11/14/10 at 10:03 PM
yeah, but the point is the common denominator. The measurement of the erectile state is only limited by the imagination of the bearer or user, much like the value of money.
Posted by done on 11/14/10 at 10:22 PM
The American football field is 120x53.33 yards. Hence the formula: ( (120 * 36) * (53.33 * 36) ) \ ( 6 * 1.2) = 1,151,928
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/15/10 at 12:45 AM
with mad math skills like that you don't need the converter expat! 😉
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/15/10 at 12:50 AM
The Grand Canyon is 446 km long and an average of 16km wide and 1200m deep. So a rough estimate of its volume would be 8,560 billion cubic meters.
A quick check at my local supermarket revealed that bacon rashers are about 15cm by 3cm by 0.2cm (not counting thick cut or back). Hence it takes roughly 111 thousands rashers to make up 1 cubic meter.
So the number of bacon rashers needed to fill the Grand Canyon would be 951,466,000,000,000,000.
A quick check at my local supermarket revealed that bacon rashers are about 15cm by 3cm by 0.2cm (not counting thick cut or back). Hence it takes roughly 111 thousands rashers to make up 1 cubic meter.
So the number of bacon rashers needed to fill the Grand Canyon would be 951,466,000,000,000,000.
Posted by Dumbfounded on 11/15/10 at 06:57 AM
Also, I don't recommend taking a tape measure to the supermarket. People give you some very funny looks when you start using it to measure packets of bacon. :red:
Posted by Dumbfounded on 11/15/10 at 07:00 AM
if you think you got some weird looks measuring bacon, go to produce and measure a couple of cucumbers and zucchinis! :lol:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/15/10 at 11:03 AM
Film at 11, Patty?
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/15/10 at 12:46 PM
yeah!
"Man says he is dumbfounded at people's reaction to his simple measurment taking at the local farmer's market." :lol:
"Man says he is dumbfounded at people's reaction to his simple measurment taking at the local farmer's market." :lol:
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/15/10 at 12:56 PM
Reminds me of when you buy a bull or a ram.
Always check that their testicles are both the same size and equally firm, neither one should hang significantly lower than the other and both should be able to move around freely. If the animal reacts badly to a gentle squeeze then there may possibly be a problem with its genetalia, either that or your hands are cold.
Always check that their testicles are both the same size and equally firm, neither one should hang significantly lower than the other and both should be able to move around freely. If the animal reacts badly to a gentle squeeze then there may possibly be a problem with its genetalia, either that or your hands are cold.
Posted by Dumbfounded on 11/15/10 at 01:07 PM
hubby hates it when i have cold hands!
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/15/10 at 01:31 PM
Dumbfounded -
Thanks for the information, but you really didn't need to figure out the volume of the Grand Canyon - its one of the units in the Weird Converter. They put the number at well over ten trillion cubic meters, which would give the total 1,156,670,455,954,650,000. That's over one quintillion slices of bacon (not far off from the number you got by estimating). Now that's a lot of bacon.
Is anyone else craving Denny's right about now?
Thanks for the information, but you really didn't need to figure out the volume of the Grand Canyon - its one of the units in the Weird Converter. They put the number at well over ten trillion cubic meters, which would give the total 1,156,670,455,954,650,000. That's over one quintillion slices of bacon (not far off from the number you got by estimating). Now that's a lot of bacon.
Is anyone else craving Denny's right about now?
Posted by Salamander Sam in Chicago on 11/15/10 at 03:24 PM
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