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> There is now 15.4 Salesforce Towers, or 909 Salesforce Tower floors, worth of empty office space Man we will do anything to not use the metric system. ;)
by MadVikingGod 4y ago
> There is now 15.4 Salesforce Towers, or 909 Salesforce Tower floors, worth of empty office space
Man we will do anything to not use the metric system. ;)
- ravenstine 4y agoLOL I have come to both agree and disagree with you. When I was a geeky kid, I would groan whenever someone used "football fields" as a form of relative measurement. All the time, on TV, I would be watching something educational and the host would describe something as being "more than 2 and a half football fields large!" It used to be really common and I just assumed that people were either dumb or way too obsessed with football. As a fully grown adult, I actually came to respect the football-field as a legitimate unit of measurement. It's something we are all familiar and can wrap our minds around in a way that traditional units don't. Same thing goes for pints, cups, etc. For Silicon Valley types, maybe "Salesforce tower floors" can mean something. haha Inches, however, can die in a bloody fire. The meter scale will always be more straight forward than having to think twice about which friggin' fraction of an inch is bigger or smaller than another.
- beerandt 4y agoDecimal inches (and feet) are pretty common, especially in engineering and surveying.
- ASalazarMX 4y agoThis could be gradually changed if they said "100 meters, about a football field", so people started to visualize metric units naturally.
- kungito 4y agoFootball fields aren't even of fixed size
- ravenstine 4y agoMaybe that's hardly relevant? If the football field unit is intended to paint a mental picture as opposed to being an objective physical measure, the fuzziness of the football field size may not matter. It may even be a good thing if the size of a football field varies by locality. Good point, however.