How long is a meter? (Only weird answers/definitions allowed)
How long is a meter? (Only weird answers/definitions allowed)
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The distance that light travels in about a three hundred millionth of a second. Wait, that's just the actual definition.
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About the length of a golden retriever
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About as wide as my oversized fridge.
Can't wait to get rid of that shit and have something that actually fits in my kitchen.
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Like half a dude.
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Wednesday dude or normal one?
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like a Tuesday one
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Weird frog dude
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Some dudes are longer than others.
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"I see yer mother's been tellin' ya stories about me ag'in, boy!"
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look it's not like there's a titanium standard dude lodged somewhere in a vault in France, but I reckon we all know the difference between a short dude, a long dude, and a metric regular dude
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"The length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium."
This is the actual definition, but it's also pretty weird.
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And here I thought it was that sick of metal in the wall in France when it is 21 degrees C
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They redefined it a few years ago to base all units on some objectively measurable natural constant. Because that stick of metal might still decay or warp or something and you don't always want to travel to France when you want to know the length of a meter. Much easier to measure the atoms and light you have on hand.
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Found the vampire.
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It was defined as
one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris.
The stick of metal in Paris is just so people don't have to do measure the distance between the north pole and the equator each time they want to check their measuring tool.
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Depends on the meter, dude. There are thermo-meters, speedo-meters, baro-meter...
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You win.
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The distance light travels when it goes one meter.
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Meter‽ We are more than well acquainted.
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3 1/3 Subway sandwiches
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Take a really long rope and put one end on either pole of the Earth, and the other end on the equator. Use the shortest path, and make sure the rope is tight. No squiggles allowed! Chop that rope into exactly 10 000 000 equal parts. One of them is as long as a meter. Now you just need to find the right one.
Edit: more zeros.
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Distance between pole and equator is... 10 km?
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Good catch. I screwed up the zeros. Fixed it now.
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About twice as long as half of its length
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The square root of a square meter
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take a meter stick, now cut it in half. glue it back together. a meter is probably a little bit longer than this since you lost some material cutting.
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About this long holds palms one meter apart.
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A bit more than 90 centimetres, a bit less than 110. Somewhere in that ballpark.
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Okay, so, right, okay. Um. In German schools (and probably some other countries...?), many many years ago (possibly still today? or maybe it's all digital now? what am I saying, this is German schools), the blackboard in every classroom was a large, green, rectangular middle part and two square "wings", one on each side (as wings are wont to be...). They can swing in and out, providing extra room for writing on the outer side of the wings. Also for extracurricular shenanigans such as writing "[name] + [name] = SEX" in the middle, swinging the wings closed to hide the writing and then breaking out into hysterics when the teacher opens the blackboard to reveal your incredibly highbrow joke.
This type of blackboard is quintessential to my recollections about and concept of school.
Why am I going into such unnecessary detail about this? I have ADHD and possibly autism, I need you to understand what I'm saying and I can't find any sources of this existing in the English speaking world and I can't find an English word for those "wings" either. I can barely find a German one ("Tafelflügel"? I don't think it's ever come up before in my life).
So here's a picture:
The width/height of the "wings" and the height of the middle part, that's a metre. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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Does the metallic edge count as part of the meter too or just the green surface? What if it's so hot the wings expand?
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My meter is about six inches by three (from memory). It measures voltage (both AC and DC) and current.
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The distance between the first line in a hopscotch game and where I would put the top line of the [4, 5] block.
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5 letters
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‘a meter’
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5 = 6 = 1m
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About ten minutes, wait, what was the question?
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About 4 stacked house cats, or a bit longer than a 3-year-old.
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Just about half as twice as much.
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The overall length of an M16A4
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I didn't even know what a M16A4 is. Some US unit, right?
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Yes, with the official M16A4 unit being defined as 1/100th the length between the goal lines of an American Football field.
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It is a very US unit, yes.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle
39.37 in (1,000 mm) (M16A4)
I didn't know until today that it was exactly one meter long, though.
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You did ask for weird
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Why does it have a overall on
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Depends on how much money you put in.
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😂👏
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About the size of a giant sea turtle.
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Is it a cute turtle?
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If it have been cute, it's not a meter long anymore.
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Try to piss as far as you can. Now you know how long a meter is.
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But how do we measure the lenght? Do we have to find a way which includes the last drop? And what if I don't have a penis?
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Take one liter of water at "room temperature" an aprox of 20 Celcuis degrees at one atmosfere pressure. Take a straight transparent tube of one centimeter inner thickness. Put the water in without spilling.
Measue...
A meter...
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That's wrong. The tube has a cross section of 0.25π cm² so your tube will be filled ~1,2732m high.
Also as others have stated, if you can measure 1cm you already have a definition of a Meter.
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Accidentally measured diagonally, now what
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you will have measured 1.00005 meters (sqrt(1+0.01²)), assuming your eyes are the best in the world.
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how am I supposed to measure the inner thickness?
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5.618 Bananas
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One-half a Darth Vader.
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Same length as a string.
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About 2 bushels and a peck.
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Hold one arm on your body and stretch the other one to your side. Now make your wrists/hands point forward. This is a meter.
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Well, meter, like atom meter? Or like gas meter? Anti meter? You need to specify the type of meter.
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Pentameter
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Iambic or dactylic?
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About a yard
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A bit shorter than a (parking) meter.
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It is exactly one half of two meters.
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Ask...Peter
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Peter who?
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like, Meter Peter. Don't ask me, it just descended on me
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It's more than less than a meter but less than more than a meter.
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Around 2 cats long
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3 feet + a snickers bar
Or if I feel the need to be rude toward a man: 3 feet + your penis
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if the meter is dramatic, could be 5 feet.
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Gas meter or water meter?
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Enough thread for 10 to 15 stitches.
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bit
moreless than 6 wang lengths.
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I think we can agree there are large and short meters. So everyone is right.
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It's about as close as I'm comfortable standing to a stranger
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approximately 1.06 × 10⁻⁷ nanolightyears
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About 0.59 Smoots
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It takes 20s for falling cherry blossom petal to travel.
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One universe across, depending on your frame of reference
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It's approximately 100 quarts per square foot.
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it's exactly one meter long
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