Talk:2308: Mount St. Helens - Revision history

RadiantRainwing at 23:52, 12 April 2025

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Trogdor147 at 04:27, 14 May 2024

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172.70.85.205 at 09:37, 26 May 2023

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Trogdor147 at 04:27, 26 May 2023

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Cellocgw at 11:44, 20 May 2020

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 I'm just excited that he mentioned my home state [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.251|108.162.246.251]] 16:20, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 I suspect the wiggles in all the hand-drawn lines are actually more than the changes in height of the various mountains, and almost certainly not correlated to the actual changes in height, since this is all unknown. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 00:56, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

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 :::Also note that (excluding the huge 'other scale' populations which actually includes the top two most populous nations) it is clear that [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/EScalas_corta_y_larga.svg Long Scale is not exactly rare]. For example plenty of 'old world' countries with reasonably packed populations, compared with a number of large Short Scale/Short-with-Milliard territories with low densities across most of their sprawling areas (e.g. US, Russia, Brazil, Australia, trans-Sahara nations...). There's the mixed-use ones as well. Canada is steadfastly Anglo-French hybrid in various ways, of ''course'' they're not melded to either system, in one of the largest countries by area (actual or by distorted map area) if you don't like reducing to populations. And in the whole of (most distorted) Antarctica probably most of its few multinational 'inhabitants' instead prefer to resort to SI prefixes and/or powers-of-ten anyway!
 :::So "makes more sense"{{Actual citation needed}} and "more common"{{Actual citation needed}} are dubious by almost any definition... IMO! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.205|172.70.85.205]] 09:37, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 :Wow you're so cool and epic for using slurs good job
 :1. That was unnecessary. 2. I honestly don’t care what units people use, as long they aren’t super obscure (like furlongs or smoots). 3. Yes, I know this discussion is 3 years old, and I don’t care (also I’m new here and I want to be a part of things). [[User:Trogdor147|Trogdor147]] ([[User talk:Trogdor147|talk]]) 04:20, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

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 ::I think the graph should be labeled in seconds. I mean, gigaseconds for time and light microseconds for distance. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 02:55, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
 ::You know what? You’re mostly right (and this is coming from and American!), but I disagree with the “billion” thing. The US way makes more sense and is more common, anyway. [[User:Trogdor147|Trogdor147]] ([[User talk:Trogdor147|talk]]) 04:26, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 :Wow you're so cool and epic for using slurs good job
 :1. That was unnecessary. 2. I honestly don’t care what units people use, as long they aren’t super obscure (like furlongs or smoots). 3. Yes, I know this discussion is 3 years old, and I don’t care (also I’m new here and I want to be a part of things). [[User:Trogdor147|Trogdor147]] ([[User talk:Trogdor147|talk]]) 04:20, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

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 ::You know what? You’re mostly right (and this is coming from and American!), but I disagree with the “billion” thing. The US way makes more sense and is more common, anyway. [[User:Trogdor147|Trogdor147]] ([[User talk:Trogdor147|talk]]) 04:26, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 :Wow you're so cool and epic for using slurs good job
-:1. That was unnecessary. 2. I honestly don’t care what units people use, as long they aren’t super obscure (like furlongs or shoots). 3. Yes, I know this discussion is 3 years old, and I don’t care (also I’m new here and I want to be a part of things). [[User:Trogdor147|Trogdor147]] ([[User talk:Trogdor147|talk]]) 04:20, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
+:1. That was unnecessary. 2. I honestly don’t care what units people use, as long they aren’t super obscure (like furlongs or smoots). 3. Yes, I know this discussion is 3 years old, and I don’t care (also I’m new here and I want to be a part of things). [[User:Trogdor147|Trogdor147]] ([[User talk:Trogdor147|talk]]) 04:20, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 Could be linked to sudden changes to covid-19 charts due to lockdowns [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.222|162.158.34.222]] 12:12, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

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 :All twentyish attoparsecs, you mean? (Yanks like using measures that give them bigger numbers. Feet instead of metres, inches instead of metres (or feet-and-inches), pounds instead of kilos (or stones-and-kilos), US gallons instead of UK ones, the wrong sort of billion/etc. :P ) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.76|162.158.159.76]] 11:22, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 ::I think the graph should be labeled in seconds. I mean, gigaseconds for time and light microseconds for distance. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 02:55, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
-::You know what? You’re mostly right (and this is coming from and American!), but I disagree with the “billion” thing. The US way makes more sense and is more common, anyway.
+::You know what? You’re mostly right (and this is coming from and American!), but I disagree with the “billion” thing. The US way makes more sense and is more common, anyway. [[User:Trogdor147|Trogdor147]] ([[User talk:Trogdor147|talk]]) 04:26, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 :Wow you're so cool and epic for using slurs good job
 :1. That was unnecessary. 2. I honestly don’t care what units people use, as long they aren’t super obscure (like furlongs or shoots). 3. Yes, I know this discussion is 3 years old, and I don’t care (also I’m new here and I want to be a part of things). [[User:Trogdor147|Trogdor147]] ([[User talk:Trogdor147|talk]]) 04:20, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

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	According to the wikipedia article, "The eruption ejected more than one cubic mile (4.2 km^3) of material." That's going to be billions of tonnes, rather than the thousands mentioned in the explanation. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.31\|162.158.154.31]] 15:23, 19 May 2020 (UTC) I don't think I'm going to be able to contribute here any more if I keep having to provide free training for Google's image recognition of weird American street scenes. What's a "crosswalk" and what does it look like anyway?		According to the wikipedia article, "The eruption ejected more than one cubic mile (4.2 km^3) of material." That's going to be billions of tonnes, rather than the thousands mentioned in the explanation. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.31\|162.158.154.31]] 15:23, 19 May 2020 (UTC) I don't think I'm going to be able to contribute here any more if I keep having to provide free training for Google's image recognition of weird American street scenes. What's a "crosswalk" and what does it look like anyway?
	: A "crosswalk" is a "{{w\|pedestrian crossing}}" in other types of English). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.124\|108.162.215.124]] 16:46, 19 May 2020 (UTC)		: A "crosswalk" is a "{{w\|pedestrian crossing}}" in other types of English). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.124\|108.162.215.124]] 16:46, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
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		+	I suspect the true slope of the line during that transition period is a heck of a lot closer to negative infinity than as drawn. #itsajokedammit [[User:Cellocgw\|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw\|talk]]) 11:44, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

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 I suspect the wiggles in all the hand-drawn lines are actually more than the changes in height of the various mountains, and almost certainly not correlated to the actual changes in height, since this is all unknown. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 00:56, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
-This comic needs to be translated to non-retard units [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.212|162.158.155.212]] 07:41, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
+This comic needs to be translated to non-retard units [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.212|162.158.155.212]] 07:41, 19 May 2020 (UTC)  <-- don't  use "retard."  That's really gay. [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 11:42, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
 :We can't expect everyone to be scientifically literate enough to understand measuring things with the planck length, superior though it may be. Besides, these are American mountains, so they're measured in American units. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.251|108.162.246.251]] 16:20, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 :It's pretty common to measure things in years.  And while measuring in 20 year gaps isn't normal, I wouldn't call it retarded, especially when they're probably chosen for a good visual spacing.  [[User:Mikemk|Mikemk]] ([[User talk:Mikemk|talk]]) 08:54, 19 May 2020 (UTC)