Comments on: 10 Modern Measurements

By: pwscott

pwscott — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:40:38 +0000

You can’t beat a Thaum. How many white pigeons do you need? :p

By: Tara Wheeler

Tara Wheeler — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:09:21 +0000

In Doctor Who Fandom we have a power measurement taken by Unit Scientist Malcolm Taylor.

Malcolm measured power surges in the episode ‘Planet of the Dead’

He describes one Malcolm as a wavelength parcel of ten KH/Z operating in 4 dimensions. Malcolm came up with the idea to name a form of measurement after himself from James Watt, saying “it didn’t do him any harm.”

Then when things got a little crazy later on he discovered another measurement:

100 Malcolms = 1 Bernard

By: ray ray

ray ray — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:17:18 +0000

I like the milihelen. It’s a measurement of beauty. It’s the amount of beauty needed to launch just one ship.

By: Minnesotastan

Minnesotastan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:56:10 +0000

The Wired article doesn’t include the “herm” (or herman) – a measurement equal to one cubic mouthful. Perhaps it wasn’t considered sufficiently geeky.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:20:35 +0000

Instead of 13 minutes, we could call that span of time a Trollup, which equals the time from a posting to the time the first troll shows up in comments.

By: Simon_Says

Simon_Says — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:02:45 +0000

This was one of the worst posts at Neatorama ever. Terrible. Totally waste of one’s time. Not fun, not informative, not clever.