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Hand
Throughout human history our body have been often used to measure things.But why a "hand"to measure horses? 5000 years ago,stacking one mans fist upon another was the simplest system
-equavalent to 4 inches
Barn
Researches coined the barn unit to measure the cross-section of uranium nucleus, which is huge compared to other elements whizzing around the particle accelarator.
-equavalent to 10^-24 cm²
Horse
The lenght of the horse is commonly used to measure the distance between them in the race.
Race are usually closer than that though and distances less than a lenght,such as Short Neck,
Neck and half a lenght are also used.
-equavalent
to approximately 8 feet.
Mickey
Mickey is the smallest detectable movement of a mouse cursor on the screen.It was coined by computer scientists who used it when programming mice and other input devices.
-equavalent to approximately 0.1 mm.
Jiffy
A jiffy is the time between cycles of alternating current,for example the humming of an electrical device.
-equavalent to approximately 1/60th of a second.
Cow's Grass
For 19th century farners in Ireland,the literal size of a field was much less important than how many cows it could sustain,so they used cow's grass to measure them.
-equavalent to the amount of land thar could produce enough grass to support a cow.
Double -Decker bus
Busses are often used as an ad-hoc measuring
system when a more grandious ans visual statistic is required.In the past,the have been used to describe holes created by sewer collapses and the size of a whales.
-equavalent to 10.6 meters/12.65 tonnes
Pony
Named so in 19th century,because of the miniature size,a pony is a half or short shot.
equavalent to 25 ML
Slug
The slug formed part of the specialised gravititional
system of mechanical units developed in the late 19th & 20th centuries.
-equavalent to 14.5939 kg.
Shake
In nuclear physics a shake is an informal unit of time,which measures the timing of various events in a nuclear explosion.It is derived from top -secret projects during World War II.
-equavalent to Nanoseconds
Smoot
In 1958,Oliver R. Smoot,lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge so that his MIT praternity brothers could measure the lenght of the bridge with his height.In 2011,smooth was one of the 10,000 new words added to the American Heritage Dictionary.
-equavalent to 5 ft 7 inches
Banana
Bananas are natural source of radioactive isotopes.There's not much in 1 banana but enough that a few bananas will open trigger radiation sensors used at U.S ports to detect
smuggled nuclear material.
-equavalent to 0.1 microsieverts
excerpt from TheFactSite
Throughout human history our body have been often used to measure things.But why a "hand"to measure horses? 5000 years ago,stacking one mans fist upon another was the simplest system
-equavalent to 4 inches
Barn
Researches coined the barn unit to measure the cross-section of uranium nucleus, which is huge compared to other elements whizzing around the particle accelarator.
-equavalent to 10^-24 cm²
Horse
The lenght of the horse is commonly used to measure the distance between them in the race.
Race are usually closer than that though and distances less than a lenght,such as Short Neck,
Neck and half a lenght are also used.
-equavalent
to approximately 8 feet.
Mickey
Mickey is the smallest detectable movement of a mouse cursor on the screen.It was coined by computer scientists who used it when programming mice and other input devices.
-equavalent to approximately 0.1 mm.
Jiffy
A jiffy is the time between cycles of alternating current,for example the humming of an electrical device.
-equavalent to approximately 1/60th of a second.
Cow's Grass
For 19th century farners in Ireland,the literal size of a field was much less important than how many cows it could sustain,so they used cow's grass to measure them.
-equavalent to the amount of land thar could produce enough grass to support a cow.
Double -Decker bus
Busses are often used as an ad-hoc measuring
system when a more grandious ans visual statistic is required.In the past,the have been used to describe holes created by sewer collapses and the size of a whales.
-equavalent to 10.6 meters/12.65 tonnes
Pony
Named so in 19th century,because of the miniature size,a pony is a half or short shot.
equavalent to 25 ML
Slug
The slug formed part of the specialised gravititional
system of mechanical units developed in the late 19th & 20th centuries.
-equavalent to 14.5939 kg.
Shake
In nuclear physics a shake is an informal unit of time,which measures the timing of various events in a nuclear explosion.It is derived from top -secret projects during World War II.
-equavalent to Nanoseconds
Smoot
In 1958,Oliver R. Smoot,lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge so that his MIT praternity brothers could measure the lenght of the bridge with his height.In 2011,smooth was one of the 10,000 new words added to the American Heritage Dictionary.
-equavalent to 5 ft 7 inches
Banana
Bananas are natural source of radioactive isotopes.There's not much in 1 banana but enough that a few bananas will open trigger radiation sensors used at U.S ports to detect
smuggled nuclear material.
-equavalent to 0.1 microsieverts
excerpt from TheFactSite