Monday, May 16, 2011

Funny Measurements


Here we have a gallery of hilarious measurements people actually used! From a windmill beard to a herd of sheep, these crazy images show the various ways in which you can measure something and still be accurate. And you thought the metric system was hard!

1 Wheaton = 500,000 Twitter followers



1 Dirac = 1 word spoken per hour


1 Smoot = 5 feet, 7 inches


1 Potrzebie = 2.263348517438173216473 mm


1 Helen = Beauty to launch 1,000 ships


1 Canard = Standard unit of Quackery


1 Beard-Second = 5 nanometers


The Stobart (UK)


1 Barn = 10^-28 m^2


1 Friedman = 6 months in the future


1 Sheppey = 7/8 mile