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The whole “feet” thing made it impossible to get any sort of scale/height thing right in my head, but it is hilarious that they mix the metric system into their
by devjab 3y ago
The whole “feet” thing made it impossible to get any sort of scale/height thing right in my head, but it is hilarious that they mix the metric system into their crazy mess. I’m not sure the Brits would’ve done it though, I like climbing articles and I can’t recall ever being this height confused before.
I’m probably some sort of challenged but I really can’t internalise if 5000 feet is impressive or not. Like it could be 20 meters or it could be a 1000. Of course it’s fair that an American article uses their various “freedom” scales and I tend to just “give up” and ignore the numbers I don’t understand. The article itself does enough to impress the magnitude of these climbers achievement without the numbers.
- krisoft 3y ago> Like it could be 20 meters or it could be a 1000. Are you proud of being unable to solve this? It would have taken you less keypresses to find out than to write your message. Hint: if you want a rough estimate just divide the number of feets by 3.
- devjab 3y agoNot necessarily proud, but the only thing that plays on my mind when I have to deal with feet (and inches since those are called “thumbs” in my country) is that guy in Braveheart going “some men are longer than others”. It is what it is.