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Chaos Undivided:
I'd like to open this thread with a couple direct questions to the mods. What are the standards when it comes to enforcing the rules? Why are the standards the way they are?

davedan:
Exactly. I want to go back to a kilogram being a random lump of metal and the metre should also be all based on the one carbon rod.

Fucking Rules and measures baby.

niam2023:
Nobody on this site takes you seriously OR respects you, CU.

davedan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Dz6NZXSxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Dz6NZXSxE

Sigmaleph:

--- Quote from: Chaos Undivided on June 12, 2019, 08:36:21 pm ---I'd like to open this thread with a couple direct questions to the mods. What are the standards when it comes to enforcing the rules? Why are the standards the way they are?
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The rules exist to facilitate the existence of a community. The standards in enforcement derive from that goal.


--- Quote from: davedan on June 12, 2019, 11:08:42 pm ---Exactly. I want to go back to a kilogram being a random lump of metal and the metre should also be all based on the one carbon rod.

Fucking Rules and measures baby.

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While it's all very nice to be able to point to a chunk of metal and say 'there, that's what a kilogram is', it has a number of weakness (variation over time, reproducibility without access to the physical standard, etc.) that mean the approach based on physical constants is better suited to scientific work.

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