Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for August 14, 2022

None so deaf as those that will not hear

Is our money metric? It is decimal.

It’s actually a good question considering the kids’ goal and tools they have. If he really wanted to help, he’d check the label and see it’s a five-gallon bucket, measure the full depth in millimeters, divide by five, and show Hammie the mark on ruler to use.

Hammie, I thought you weren’t ready to go back to school.

Of course, there are a million millilitres in a cubic metre, because metric is cool like that.

Cross-sectional area in square millimeters times millimeters of height gives the number of cubic millimeters. Divide that by 3,785,412 cubic millimeters per gallon gives you the number of gallons. If you changed cross-sectional area to square centimeters, you would divide the product by 37,854.12 since there are that many square centimeter-millimeters per gallon.

And, of course, to find the cross-sectional area, take the diameter, square it, multiply by pi/4.

(But everybody knows that.)

Yep- typical Dad over-explanation; typical Kid comprehension of over-explanation.

Metric tools are much easier to figure out, like 13 is one mm bigger than 14, as opposed to 5/8 is one bigger than 9/16 !

That’s like comparing apples with oranges. The kid may as well ask, “How many oranges are there in applesauce?”.

Destroying speech bubbles. Breaking the fourth wall.

The last president to suggest that America go metric was Jimmy Carter. The idea didn’t go over too well. We’re America! We’re right and the rest of the world is wrong!

Imagine what it was like before they standardized the foot. Finding 5280 people and lining them up single file with their right foot on a straight line…

Other than temperature, I like metric. 25 sounds cold to me.

The metric system does have a connection — a cubic centimeter of water weighs one gram, and 1000 cubic centimeters are in a liter, which weighs 1 kilogram — length, volume and weight of the most basic fluid of life.

Hammie, are you referring to a US gallon or an Imperial gallon? The devil is in the details Hammie.

More curious as to why they want to measure a gallon…

Love Hammie wading through all the words – very creative!

Back in the 1970’s, it looked like the United States was going to go metric, just as the other English-speaking countries were doing. I was strongly in favor of it. Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, which encouraged, but did not require, conversion to metric. But in the end the movement went nowhere.

If we know how many millimetres tall and how many millimetres across your bucket was we could figure that out.

Usual comment “Go ask your Mother”!

Two observations:

Darryl should have stopped after the explanation in panel four.

Love the way Hammie is walking through and disrupting the letters in panel five!

TMI

Yeah, that might have been a little too much of an explanation for Hammie.

Sums it up.

The units of measurement used by the United States are defined in SI terms. For example, a yard is defined as exactly 0.9144 meter.

Hammie got home schooled.

Nice use of graphics in panel 5.

Short answer is, it depends on the radius/diameter of the bucket, I would think. If you have that, you can calculate how much volume a millimeter of liquid is, and then go from there.

Well, if you know how big a bucket it takes to hold a gallon, you can figure out how many cubic millimeters per gallon.

There are 3785411.784 cubic millimeters in 1 gallon.

The correct answer is fajita.

How about milliLiters?

You could could figure the volume in cubic millimeters.