Posted on 07/24/2021 9:30:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
What’s a cubic liter? Remember folks, this is exactly what our erstwhile rulers want to be able to do here. To the Left, your life is worth less than a wheelbarrow full of bricks. Quod erat demonstrandum.
Up next, the 3 Gorges Dam
A cubic litre would be a litre - only in a square box, not a coke-bottle
Interestiny in CCP China the local party officials will lose their posts or even face a death squad for their actions, if found to be deficient. Whereas in the US, murderers like Cuomo or Newsom are still odds-on favorites for reelection in “Our Democracy”.
Possibly, but it won’t directly impact China’s leadership, just the little people who are easily expendable in China.
Yeah, no such thing as a cubic liter. Now, a cubic meter is a different matter. That’s the volume of 1,000 liters.
Well since a liter is already a volumetric measurement, it means the reporter is probably an American used to using “cubic feet”.
Sort of like saying a cubic gallon was pumped.
I think that's the difference between them and us. Something like that happens here, at some point Americans are gonna say "f*** this, I'm deciding!" And act on it. The people that took down the hijackers on flight 93 are an example. Another example I can think of is the Texas floods a few years back. While there was a healthy emergency response, there was also a ton of guys with pickup trucks, bass boats and jetskis that showed up too.
CC
Yeah, it would have made sense to express it in terms of either liters or cubic meters. A liter is a liter and a gallon is a gallon. It just seemed like an odd conflation of terms.
Oh I think there were plenty of Chinese people helping each other during this flood as evidenced . I tend to give any and all country emergency services a reasonable pass when it comes to emergency situations......especially flash floods and earthquakes, tornadoes, fires and the like. Most are doing everything they can and are trained to do but it will never be a perfect plan nor will everybody rescued be grateful.
Three litres.
One litre width.
One litre height.
One litre depth.
Happy to help. That’s what Canadians are for.
It won’t kill enough of them to make enough difference. But, I give Mother Nature a big “thumbs up” for at least helping out.
So what exactly do you do when someone wants a 3rd, or a 5th or a 4th of that measure. AND! do you know where the whole “metric system” began? And Why?
It comes from the land of the people that eat snails. They’ve always been difficult to deal with and probably did it to be difficult.
To measure 1/5 of a cubic litre, you would get a container that is 1/5 of a litre in H/W/D and fill it up.
I’m not talking about emergency services. I’m talking about the initiative some Americans show vs. the learned helplessness, AKA “trust-the-government” attitude the Chinese state likes to instill innits subjects.
CC
I heard that it began in ancient times. A centimeter is the width of a drop of water. 100 of them is a meter. It was a universal method of measurement thousands of years ago, and got "rediscovered" in modern times. Ancient tombs and other structures have lengths that exactly match meters in length, because the width of a drop of water never changes.
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