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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

Why YSK: If you're an American (or Liberian/Myanma), simply knowing that 1m~=3.28ft is... not that helpful. Understanding a unit requires lived experience, after all

Well, if you play Minecraft: good news! Blocks in Minecraft are exactly 1m^3^. If you can close your eyes and visualize a Minecraft grid, you're probably already surprisingly good at measuring things in meters.

Let's give it a shot:

  • How tall is the average person? A little bit less than ~~2 blocks~~ 2 meters
  • How wide is the average person? About ~~1/2 a block~~ 1/2 a meter
  • What's the furthest a young person can fall before it starts getting painful? Just over ~~3 blocks~~ 3 meters
  • How big is the average room? About ~~6x6 blocks~~ 6x6 meters

Some players might even be familiar with kilometers if they use waypoint mods, such as Xaero's Minimap. If a map marker says it's 1000 blocks away, that's 1km. How long does it take a healthy person to walk ~~1000 blocks~~ 1 kilometer? About 10 minutes!

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[-] sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

How wide is the average person? About 1/2 a block 1/2 a meter

This advice doesn't apply to Americans

[-] Seven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

An average american is 26 big macs tall

[-] s0phia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Is there a TheyDidTheMath on lemmy already? I need to know if this is accurante.

[-] blueskiesoc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I love when they're called freedom units.

What's that in freedom units?

Sounds ridiculous in a good way.

[-] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

1 meter is roughly 17 football field bud lights per ar-15.

[-] CAVOK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.” ― Josh Bazell, Wild Thing

[-] T156@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Wasn't that just part of the Cold War/Terror War fervour? Where everything was freedom something or other.

Freedom fries, Freedom Units, Freedom bangstick, Freedom Vroom Vroom, etc

[-] blueskiesoc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. All because republicans were pissed that France didn't want to invade Iraq with us.

Here's a link for those that don't know.

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