The kilogram, like the pope, is infallible

[Noonling]

Exciting news from the BBC: Definition of kilogram set to change

"I think it is such an exciting thing and this is a really big moment. So I'm a little bit sad about (the change). But it is an important step forward and so the new system is going to work a lot better. So it is also a really exciting time. And I can't wait for it to happen."

I don't know if I want this thread to be about the exciting kilogram news or the increasing oddness in some of the BBC's news articles.

[EOLAN]

I always thought that the gram was the base weight. With the kilogram being defined by being one thousand of them (a kilo). So shouldn't the gram be needing to change or will a kilogram now be something like 999.9952 grams.

[biggytitbo]

Its one of the last measurements to still use a physical artefact isn't it? All the others have already converted to be based on some constant of the universe.

[Dr Trouser]

its not just the kilogram a vote is going on (right now!!) to redefine all the SI units.

Overshadowed by Brexit so won't get the coverage it deserves.

live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA67T7FPBME

edit: not now, at 10:00 am UK time, got confused with ECT, hopefully Brexi will put an end to that

[biggytitbo]

If we leave the EU we have to go back to using the megalithic yard and the cubit.

[Old Nehamkin]

[Alberon]

The kilogram, and indeed all standard measurements, should be floated on the stock market and allowed to find their natural levels instead of the current communist system where their values are imposed by diktat.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I quite like the old way, where there's a room that contains the perfect kilo, the most accurate metre etc.

[im barry bethel]

The electrical current going through the electromagnet is increased until the two sides are perfectly balanced.

Does that look plumb to you Lance?

[im barry bethel]

I quite like the old way, where there's a room that contains the perfect kilo, the most accurate metre etc.

Biggy's arse weighs less at the summit of Everest than it does on the No.93 to Chappeltown

[Norton Canes]

I think some SI units could be defined by CaB constants. For instance a second is the exact time it takes to realise a given post of Biggy's makes no sense.

SORRY BIGGY had to use someone.

A kelvin could simply be the temperature of Kelvin.

[Norton Canes]

Fuck my hat! There are only seven base units.

[Kelvin]

I think some SI units could be defined by CaB constants. For instance a second is the exact time it takes to realise a given post of Biggy's makes no sense.

SORRY BIGGY had to use someone.

A kelvin could simply be the temperature of Kelvin.

I'm like the speaking clock. Scientists constantly call me up from all over the world asking me to stick a thermometer up my bum.

I suppose that makes me more like a sex line than the speaking clock, actually.

[kittens]

hey kelvin,
speaking cock!
yours forever,
kittens

[kittens]

kelvin

[Dr Trouser]

There used to be a bloke who worked at the national physical laboratory looking at the SI unit of luminous intensity, who everyone called Nelson. Turned his name wasn't Nelson, so when I asked why it's because they called him 'Nelson Candela'. Laugh a minute that job was.

[pancreas]

kelvin

No use calling after him now. He's crying in the shower after what you just said.