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Last Post 04/06/2022 03:23 PM by Orange Crush. 12 Replies.

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Dale

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04/02/2022 08:23 PM
One of the local coffee shops has a Saturday 8:00am ride. Brisk but not a throw down, solid group of riders, 50+/- miles, route varies, usually lumpy. One of my buddies brought a friend who would be doing his first group ride. The guy is strong and kept up his end of the work. 17 miles or so into the ride he looked over at me and asked what I was showing for elevation. He was at 1100' of climbing and said it's only 1300 total for the ride. "Meters" I said, "it's 1300 meters. 85 kilometers long, 1300 meters of climb. We're 1/3 the way in with 1/3 of the elevation." He looked like he'd been sucker punched. Oh did we howl at that mistake LOL! He said the last five miles he was just wanting it to be over.

longslowdistance

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04/02/2022 10:32 PM
BTDT!

Cosmic Kid

Posts:4209

04/03/2022 10:48 AM
There is less climbing in meters…🤣🤣🤣

Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!

Orange Crush

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04/04/2022 02:50 PM
Only in America.

Dale

Posts:1767

04/04/2022 07:40 PM
Only in America. You are completely wrong and your metric-centric elitism rears it's ugly head again. Myanmar and Liberia aren't on the metric system so it could have happened there as well

Orange Crush

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04/05/2022 09:12 AM
Hahaha Dale But do they have group rides in Liberia and Myanmar, or is it still Only in America?

Cosmic Kid

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04/06/2022 10:37 AM
There are two types of countries in the world...those that use the metric system and those that landed on the moon. 😝😝 (and don't get technical about it...just laugh! 🤣)

Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!

79pmooney

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04/06/2022 11:39 AM
Posted By Cosmic Kid on 04/06/2022 10:37 AM There are two types of countries in the world...those that use the metric system and those that landed on the moon. 😝😝 (and don't get technical about it...just laugh! 🤣) Yes. We put our feet on the moon while the meters stayed on earth.

Orange Crush

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04/06/2022 11:45 AM
Posted By 79 pmooney on 04/06/2022 11:39 AM Posted By Cosmic Kid on 04/06/2022 10:37 AM There are two types of countries in the world...those that use the metric system and those that landed on the moon. 😝😝 (and don't get technical about it...just laugh! 🤣) Yes. We put our feet on the moon while the meters stayed on earth. The computer system guiding the landing was programmed in SI hahaha. But they did hide that from public view on displays reports etc.

Cosmic Kid

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04/06/2022 02:33 PM
(and don't get technical about it...just laugh! 🤣) let me repeat the above....

Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!

79pmooney

Posts:3180

04/06/2022 02:58 PM
All those SI units came back to earth. Only the foot prints stayed. For now, the lunar people are spared of the confusion Dale's friend saw.

79pmooney

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04/06/2022 03:06 PM
And while we're on this note (and because I just perused the Wikipedia space station site earlier), I am reminded of the space station exhibits at the 1988 World's Fair in OC's neighborhood. The US had an elaborate and expensive building and exhibit of a future station. Russia had a far cheaper and simpler exhibit. As I recall, just a full sized mock-up of the station orbiting overhead. I found that pretty funny.

Orange Crush

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04/06/2022 03:23 PM
Posted By Cosmic Kid on 04/06/2022 02:33 PM (and don't get technical about it...just laugh! 🤣) let me repeat the above.... Well the fact that they chose to hide use of SI units is good for a massive rolling laughter. So I obliged. I figured the technical part to be the fact that neither Myanmar or Liberia put anyone on the moon. Which BTW may have been filmed in a Hollywood studio hahaha.