Saturday, December 13, 2008

Daily Question 30

Connect. List of sorts







Unusual units fo measurement


see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement#Units_for_unconventional_measurements

Cracked by Arun, Raytracer, Chin2 and Vishal

4 comments:

Vishal Chandrasekar said...

1) Warhol painting
2) Gillette
3) Carl Sagan
4) Big Mac
5) Sen. Jake Garn

Unconventional units of measurement
1) Warhol measures fame. 1 Warhol=15 minutes of fame from his quote.
2) Gillette measures Laser power - number of gillette blades a given laser beam can burn a hole.
3) Sagan - Scalar value with a minimum of 4,000,000,000. From Sagan saying 'billions and billions of stars'.
4) Big Mac Index- To compare purchasing power parity between 2 countries
5) Garn - Unit of spacesickness from what the Senator experienced during a space flight.

Lovely Q!!

Vishal

Unknown said...

These are units for various arbit things:
Warhols:Fame
BigMac Index: Purchasing Power Parity
Gillette: Gait

Raytracer said...

Unusual units of measurement.

Arun said...

Units for unconventional measurements.

Warhol for fame
Gillette for laser power
Big Mac index for purchasing power parity
Sagan a scalar unit equalling 4,000,000
Garn, NASA's unit of measure for symptoms resulting from space adaptation syndrome, the response of the human body to weightlessness in space