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The Era and Epoch are time intervals specified by humans, but I'm not sure they're appropriate for this category. Advice on whether I should add this would be appreciated. -- Cybercobra 05:18, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
For human-powered spaceflight, the distance you are driven by a large rubberband, properly extended and released, depends on your mass and the mass of the rubberband, times the length that it is drawn? I will naturally assume you have a large number of giant rubberbands (either worn, or carried in a backpack), and there is no atmospheric friction to prevent you from travelling as far as you want to. A six foot rubberband, then, could probably propel you quite a ways, assuming there were a way of stretching it, and letting it go. In that sense, then, a rubberband is a human-based unit of measure. Dexter Nextnumber ( talk) 04:05, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I don't see how an entire national system of units can be human-based. System implies simple numerical relationships, which in turns that some if not most of the units are derived. Notice that the systems listed here are all "Oriental" and thus presumably "exotic." This smacks of Orientalism.
Zyxwv99 ( talk) 21:48, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Headbomb claims this category is only for anthropic units and so has removed Phon from this category. I'm having trouble understanding exactly what constitutes an anthropic unit or why this category is not called anthropic units. ~ Kvng ( talk) 16:03, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
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The Era and Epoch are time intervals specified by humans, but I'm not sure they're appropriate for this category. Advice on whether I should add this would be appreciated. -- Cybercobra 05:18, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
For human-powered spaceflight, the distance you are driven by a large rubberband, properly extended and released, depends on your mass and the mass of the rubberband, times the length that it is drawn? I will naturally assume you have a large number of giant rubberbands (either worn, or carried in a backpack), and there is no atmospheric friction to prevent you from travelling as far as you want to. A six foot rubberband, then, could probably propel you quite a ways, assuming there were a way of stretching it, and letting it go. In that sense, then, a rubberband is a human-based unit of measure. Dexter Nextnumber ( talk) 04:05, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
I don't see how an entire national system of units can be human-based. System implies simple numerical relationships, which in turns that some if not most of the units are derived. Notice that the systems listed here are all "Oriental" and thus presumably "exotic." This smacks of Orientalism.
Zyxwv99 ( talk) 21:48, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Headbomb claims this category is only for anthropic units and so has removed Phon from this category. I'm having trouble understanding exactly what constitutes an anthropic unit or why this category is not called anthropic units. ~ Kvng ( talk) 16:03, 3 February 2019 (UTC)