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How big is "half a bee's dick"?........
Lightages:
A bee's dick length? I guess it depends if you ask the bee, or his wife.
CatalinaWOW:
A mate once conducted an experiment relating to the CH series of measurements (red, blond, black etc.) and concluded that the RCH is indeed the highest resolution unit. Still not sufficiently fine for integrated circuit work, but more than adequate for through hole PCBs and associated mechanical fabrication.
Smokey:
--- Quote from: ve7xen on February 26, 2016, 01:32:24 am ---So I found a paper with some good microscope images (DOI: 10.1007/s13592-011-0094-9).
Based on the included 1000um scale bar, I was able to analyze the image and determine that the length of the bee's dick is approximately 4800um. Therefore, half a bee's dick is approximately 2.4mm.
This is quite a bit larger than I expected...
--- End quote ---
So it's like Farads. They just got the scale wrong for actual usage.
To keep this going, here is a reference table:
1 Bee's Dick = 4.8mm
1/2 Bee's Dick = 2.4mm
1/4 Bee's Dick = 1.2mm
1/8 Bee's Dick = 0.6mm
1/16 Bee's Dick = 0.3mm
1/32 Bee's Dick = 0.15mm
1/64 Bee's Dick = 0.075mm
Or for you powers of 10 type people:
1 Bee's Dick = 4.8mm
milli-Bee's Dick = 0.048mm
micro-Bee's Dick = 0.000048mm
nano-Bee's Dick = 0.000000048mm
Half a nano-Bee's Dick = 0.000000024mm <------ Now we're talking a small number!
tautech:
I'd heard our esteemed leader use the term a couple of times in his vids and it was a new term of measurement to me. :-//
A Gnats cock however is a recognised measurement from my formative years and I highly suspect they are one in the same.
By simple maths: 2 Gnat's cocks = 1 Bee's dick and one should link these to Mr.B's also correct unit of measurement of 5/8 of FA.....
2 Gnat's cocks = 1 Bee's dick = 5/8 of FA
;)
Muttley Snickers:
I strongly suspect that a new forum emoticon would be completely out of the question although it might be useful and more polite than just calling somebody a dick.
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