Keith Wicks
Dave Mundy
The far end one should be told that you need a TV to see a picture from a satellite dish!
Mike Jordan
One for the more technical! (well it did come from a BBC Communications group)
Quite funny though in these times!
Paul …
But not very accurate?
(149.90 Mhz= 2 meters or 164 Mhz is 6 feet?)
And has the speed of light been changed by the virus?
Barry Bonner
One for the sound crews maybe!
Pat Heigham
With the 2m suggestion, one wonders how intimate relations could be achieved. Impossible unless you are built like a Blue Whale! His is 10 feet apparently.
Alan Taylor
Apparently Jacob Rees Mogg advises that we should keep four cubits away from other people.
Personally I think that cubits are too antiquated and nobody knows how big they are these days. I prefer to keep seven sixteenths of a rod, pole or perch away from other people.
Roger Bunce
Four Cubits? Isn’t that a Fathom?
Pat Heigham
Merriam-Webster defines a cubit as:
Definition of cubit
“Any of various ancient units of length based on the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger and usually equal to about 18 inches (46 centimeters)”
4 cubits are approx. 6 ft so less than 2 metres. The queue at my local Co-op stretches round into a pub car park, happens to be marked out with parking spaces which are 2.4m wide – useful!
One wonders if J R-M knows that his measurement depends where his middle finger is at the time!
Dave Mundy
I can’t fathom that one out but perhaps the horsey lot might prefer to measure it in hands!
Roger Bunce
In my school days I was of the opinion that my generation had to do TWICE as much physics as anyone before or after – because we had to do it all in Metric AND Imperial! Worse, the CGS metric system was soon replaced by another. But it got me playing with other possible units. At one point I worked out the speed of light in Furlongs per Fortnight. (No, I can’t be bothered to do it again!)
Alan Taylor
Astronomers should stay 0.0000000000000002114 light years apart.
Art Masters and Coronavirus lockdown
