creating new ways of mesurment

we where asked to create new ways to mesure,specific and personal to our own bodies.

i check out some strnage and unusual way ther are to mesure alrwady and found some interesting things. here are just some of the mesurments i found

The Beard-Second

The light-year is the distance that light travels in a year. It is used to express otherwise disorientingly large numbers. People might not have the patience or experience to see the difference between 6,000,000,000,000 and 6,000,000,000,000,000, but they can appreciate the difference between one light-year and a thousand light-years. Scientists, kidding around, wanted a unit of measurement that would express extremely small numbers, and so the beard-second was born. It measures the distance (5 nanometers) that the average (presumably male) physicist's beard grows in one second.


Big Mac Index - a measure of exchange rates (actually purchasing power parity) between two currencies. It was defined by Economist's editor Pam Woodall to measure whether a currency is under- or overvalued. She used a Big Mac because the burger is produced in about 120 countries

donkey power - A third of a horsepower, about 250 watts.

 

Hobo Power - Radio personality Adam Carolla came up with this one: a measure of how bad something smells. It ranges from 0 (not stinky at all) to 100 (lethal). A "robust fart" is about 13 hobo. At 50 hobo, the person doing the smelling would projectile vomit.

 

moment - If you ask someone to wait a moment, you're asking them to wait for a very short period of time. But how short? Turns out a moment is a medieval unit of time equals to 1/40th of an hour or 1.5 minutes

 

smidgen - Yes, it means "small" but how small? A smidgen is exactly 1/2 a pinch or 1/32 of a teaspoon.

 

smoot (this one is paticulary interesting too my project)- one smoot is defined as 5 feet and 7 inches (1.7 m), the height of Oliver R. Smoot, then an MIT undergrad who during his fraternity pledge was used by his fraternity brothers to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. They simply laid him down on the bridge and drew a mark where his head was, repeated the entire exercise along the bridge, and got a value of 364.4 smoots plus or minus one ear.