LOL euro here, but I know that

1) 1 mile is around 1600 meters

2) 1m is 3 feet ish

so 1 mile is about 5000 feet... close enough

sick euro-humble-brag

it's not painfully hot. it's actually nice and relaxing. then you jump in a lake and repeat.

i'm pretty much the GOAT at conversions and i have no idea why it would have to be a multiple of any of these numbers.

i don't think i've used these since high school:
speed of light in a vacuum: 2.99 x 10^8 m/s
speed of sound in a vacuum: 0m/s

actually the speed of sound varies depending on the medium, but iirc it's around 330m/s at like room temperature at sea level or something

now i'm gonna go check these and feel all good about myself

Has anyone else gotten 5286 as an answer? I have a few times. It's always been engineers.

Is 5286 a more accurate answer?

Is a mile and 6 feet more accurate than one mile, you ask?

Have an MS and don't know. But I'm an idiot too.

No a mile is not 5286 feet.

The correct answer is a mile is eight furlongs.

We can agree that a statistically accurate poll will never happen, but I don't see why an OOTer in a decently sized city couldn't go to a park or mall and ask 100 people in an afternoon.

There's countries that use the metric system, and there's countries that went to the moon.

I know the speed of light in metric but not in miles/sec.

/American

I dont even know, but am canadian. Guess is 4800.

1 mile = 1.6km = 1,600m - i think it's ~3 ft / m.

edit: looked it up. close enough. i don't think many people know this and there's not really a need to know it. also lol american unit system.

I think America is too dumb to be able to switch to metric.

Inventions coming from USA#1> rest of world.

1 statute mi = 5280'
1 nautical mi = 6076'

Some engineers need to use both, and apparently some you know were confused in recollection.

This is definitely very meaningful.

It would seem so.

But joking aside, the resistance to it is weird. I have never met anyone who doesn't have at least some understanding of how long a kilometer is. Everyone who has been in the military has actually used them, as have many people who've been involved in various sports. Everyone knows a meter is about a yard. Everyone in the country has bought soda by the liter and food whose nutritional content is measured in, among other things, grams. Probably about half of Americans have bought marijuana or coke by the gram, and damned near 100% have bought over the counter and prescription meds that are essentially always measured in grams and milliliters.

Everyone in the country uses energy whose power is measured in watts, and gets electric power that's denominated in volts and amperes.

In other words, not only educated people but everyone basically already knows metric distance measurement, and not only knows but uses metric measures of mass, volume, voltage, current, and power. That's three of the seven base metric units (meter, kilogram, and ampere) and scads of derived units; the second, another base unit, is the same in both systems. Two other metric base units, specifically the mole and the candela, are of quantities that are unused by non-scientists, and are universally used by scientists.

That leaves temperature. I understand some resistance to converting to Celsius (or ideally Kelvin), but that's literally the only aspect of metric that makes even the slightest sense to be concerned about.

As a counter to "america is a dumb country" it is meaningful.

Gotta be a smart mofo to keep all these measurement scales straight.

I don't think that's correct. The 186,000 mph speed was measured on a straight track. When light travels in circles, it slows consideraby. Something about the curves slows it down, but I don't remember the exact formula.

I didn't mean that literally, just the distance.

Though admittedly I knew nothing of light slowing on a curve.

Well naturally it always takes me longer to look at a curvy woman, than a non-curvy one.

So it makes sense to me.

America has a lot of very smart people, but the vast majority is very very dumb.

like cattle.

It has been a while since I have read The Bell Curve, but are you saying USA#1 has too many blacks and Mexicans, and not enough Jews? What makes USA#1 have a disproportionate number of dumb people to other countries?

Definitely a lot of curvy obese women in USA#1 for McLovin to ogle. That's a good thing, right?

Those aren't curves, those are fat folds.