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He starts off with saying that "there is a line of magma that is 15km long and 9 miles in length." Do you know why he would mix metrics like that? Edit: he's
by latchkey 3y ago
He starts off with saying that "there is a line of magma that is 15km long and 9 miles in length."
Do you know why he would mix metrics like that?
Edit: he's talking about a rectangle and his wording, to me, implied that he was using X/Y coordinates to talk about how big the rectangle is. Except that it sounded like he was mixing metrics. Other commenters suggest that he's just trying to help us dumb Americans. That could make sense too, but wasn't obvious in his wording to me. 15km ~= 9 miles, I should have done that math. =)
- earthnail 3y agoIsn’t he just trying to explain it for a wide audience? He‘s just translating units here.
- fhars 3y agoFor the benefit of the American viewers, who might not immediately know what 15km are.
- bitcharmer 3y ago> 15km long and 9 miles in length This is not mixing. He's just presenting the length in two different measurement systems.
- jrace 3y agoThat does read weird "15km long, or 9miles" Would be much better The mixing of 'length' and 'long' was odd.
- anonu 3y agoIf he had said 15km long and 9 miles wide my head would've exploded
- schiffern 3y ago> He starts off with saying that "there is a line of magma that is 15km long and 9 miles in length." The real explanation is rather prosaic: bad transcription. He doesn't use the word "and." An accurate transcription would be: > there is a line of magma that is 15 km long—about 9 miles in length. He's just (parenthetically) converting the units.