Rain Rain....

Originally posted by sonhouse
Ok kids, here is one not so hard:
Farmer has mixed messages here, trying to figure out how many gallons his fields got during a recent rain, there was one inch of rain and he has 1000 hectares of land that just received that amount of rainfall, so how many gallons of water does that represent?

Google it!
http://www.google.co.uk/search?%3Aofficial_s&q=1000+hectare+inches+in+us+gallons
http://www.google.co.uk/search?%3Aofficial_s&q=1000+hectare+inches+in+uk+gallons

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
You lose. Both the HMS Shannon and the USS Chesapeake were frigates not galleons.

You can't prove that now. They sailed away.

Originally posted by Bowmann
You can't prove that now. They sailed away.

Last time I looked, they were both still there. The crew must be asleep.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Xanth, I agree completely, gallons, any variety, is inferior as a system to metric. If you specify those units in feet, inches, acres and gallons you go through hoops to end up with the correct answer. What I am wondering, could there be something more going on here, like some kind of anti-UK/US backlash simply because thats where they were used the most? I ...[text shortened]... h countries and for good reasons but do think that dislike spills over to units of measure also?

First you agree that imperial is inferior in every way to metric and then you ask if it's some global snub that people use the metric system over the antiquated US/UK system? 😕

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
First you agree that imperial is inferior in every way to metric and then you ask if it's some global snub that people use the metric system over the antiquated US/UK system? 😕

Well some parts of the world stick to the old stupid units for sure, Maybe I am just sniffing up the wrong tree.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
254 000 000 litres

Any other answer is stupid as it uses inferior units.

I don't know about gallons and litres but you could fill 304 800 000 hollowed out hot dogs with all that water.

Originally posted by uzless
I don't know about gallons and litres but you could fill 304 800 000 hollowed out hot dogs with all that water.

So each hot dog gets about 2/3 of a litre of water. Now THATS a bigass hotdog!

Originally posted by sonhouse
So each hot dog gets about 2/3 of a litre of water. Now THATS a bigass hotdog!

we like our hot dogs big in Canada

Originally posted by uzless
we like our hot dogs big in Canada

That must mean you have big buns too......