This has always been my argument against all these massive, convoluted, conspiracy theories. We found out what President Clinton did with a Cigar and presumably there were only two people there when it happened.
You really think we could keep anything secret that involved 1000’s of people. Furthermore you’re expecting me to believe that somehow we have some people that are in power that can’t seem to manage to balance a check book while other people in power can figure out some of these very complex precise operations?
Maybe it’s my complete and utter loss of faith in the human species…there just aren’t that many smart people left on the planet that can keep their mouths shut to be able to pull any of these things off.
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves, George Bernard Shaw.
Most people can’t keep a secret even if they are the only one that knows it. Two people, chance of remaining a secret is nearly non existent…really a secret that 100 people kept? Never happen.
The purpose of conspiracies is so the elites can control the masses…wait…does that qualify as a conspiracy theory? I’m so confused (because “they” want me to be, right?)
One of the funniest bumper stickers I’ve seen was simply “We are Everywhere”. Just that. No affiliation to anything etc. I can only imagine all the conspiracy people reading it and saying “SEE I TOLD YOU!”
I agree that the third angle projection is more natural and intuitive, but then again that’s all I’ve ever used… who knows.
As for the metric vs imperial, ideally metric makes more sense, being base 10. However, on the rare occasion time that I have had to use it, I simply detest it.
Over the years, we tend to develop a comfort or for a better word a feel for the imperial system. For example, for fits and tolerancing, I know what 0.001" or even 0.0005" is, I can almost feel it on my fingertips. Now, if someone were to tell me that there is a gap of 0.05mm in between two faces I have no feel what that is without doing the conversion. Maybe I’m just too lazy to embrace the metric system.
unfortunately I think this is like language. From what I understand even people that are relatively fluent in another language “Think” in their native language and translate to the language they are speaking. I suppose at some point that goes away but when you’ve spent 25-30+ years dealing with imperial things it would probably take that long to become “Fluent” in Metric.
When I see “1mm” I have an idea of how big it is, but when I really start thinking about how big it is I often end up converting in my head to inches. This is even more true of anything not so standard…“That’s 60mm”…“So around 2 3/8 inches”
The disparity between the two systems gets compounded when dealing with architectural drawings. ex.: 15000mm from center to center of columns. Too many digits before the decimal for my likely. I know, I sound like a grumpy old man.
…or 15M instead of 15000mm. Isn’t this a bit like saying “I don’t like imperial because there are two many digits to list 63360 inches in a mile”? The earth is 84145445920 1/64th’s of an inch in circumference
You would think that when it comes to 5 or 6 digits before the decimal they would switch over from mm to M, but that’s not the case, (15000mm is represented as 15000mm and not 15M). I guess it is to keep uniformity (one UOM) throughout.
I would think one would change it as well, but not changing it to meters is not really the metric systems fault. To my knowledge there are no ISO standards that say “You have to show everything in mm”.
Even if I were doing something like this in inches at some point you convert it to feet unless it’s a couple really big dimension on an over all system that is much smaller. You’re not going to design something that is a mi square in inches.
