Mike Taylor wrote:
<<I wonder how many
more of you share with me a total lack of intuition for what meters and kilograms _feel_ like. >> I think many do, but the same is true
for me (Italian ) and other people using the metric system....I'm ok with
a 33 inches long baseball-bat, and I can feel a
difference of half a pound if I have to swing it,but that's all I can
do...and baseball here is not very diffused , so I'm lucky;-)
Another way would be to think it terms of TV
screens.....mhh
<< That is, if I read that a certain
theropod
is 4m long, I can't form much of a mental picture of it; but once I've multiplied by 39/12ths, I'm fine envisaging an animal thirteen feet long. Is it just me?>> no it's everybody(i
think)
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