Alt text: Subway refuses to answer my questions about whether it’s an International Footlong or a US Survey Footlong. A milligram of sandwich is at stake!
xkcd #2888: US Survey Foot
Submitted 9 months ago by p1mrx@sh.itjust.works to xkcd@lemmy.world
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/us_survey_foot_2x.png
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OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 9 months ago
p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
oops, I was supposed to put that in the post body. Fixed.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Also, the NIST goon squad there is only 84.48 feet off from the perp’s location…
palitu@aussie.zone 9 months ago
But which foot?!!
corvi@lemm.ee 9 months ago
As long as the person fleeing is the one using the survey feet, the pursuers will never actually reach them.
A_A@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Right : it would be quite easy to spot someone whistling, even with those bushes around him, at about 85 ft (26 m) distance.
Still it is difficult for an author to create funny and yet realistic fiction.IMongoose@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In the comic, he looks to be about 20ft away, maybe. The last two panels are feet apart (same bush, same bank) lol.
marcos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In a jungle (that supposed to be a jungle, isn’t it? it does look like a movie jungle), it’s not easy at all.
Asweet@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Hmmm sounds like someone is looking for a hard to find… …Big Foot
p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Shout out to Carl Edvard Johansson for fixing this problem by defining the industrial inch at exactly 25.4 mm.