TV's and plumbing are still measured in inches in the UK, the measuring system was already in place when we went metric and it was what people were used to. Plumbing fittings are as you said now rounded off to millimetres etc. but the actual physical size is still the same as the original imperial. For example what is referred to as a 25mm fitting is actually one inch (25.4 mm).
There were no monkeys when dinosaurs existed, also more time elapsed between the stegosaurus in the back existing and the t rex and triceratops than between them and us.
I wonder if there isn't a stable chamber shape that promotes turbulence in a controlled manner in order to prevent it getting out of hand?
A little bit like the dimples on a golf ball create micro pockets of turbulence promoting laminar flow.
The son is going to inherit the company, he's clearly terrified and going to piss the whole thing up the wall within five years of being given the reins.
It's still just two layers of a manufactured felt or bitumen, the quality of tiling, flashing and lead in the UK is beyond compare.
There's flashing on a church near me that's nearly a thousand years old.
I would imagine that at some point we went from highways agency signage that was made to a standard to outsourcing to the cheapest bidder.
There is also a possibility that signs can't be too rigid so they don't cut vehicles in half?
Mass produced spirits became a problem throughout the western world around the same time, cheap whisky in Scotland and Ireland, gin in England and vodka in Russia etc.
The industrialisation of production led to slum housing and cheap, strong alcohol, not a good combination.
It's in the UK, there will be a layer of roofing felt underneath the slate that prevents pests getting in. Roofing felt is the same stuff that shingles are made from in the US but comes in a roll. So in the UK we have basically the roof you'd have in the US and then another slate roof on top, it rains a lot here, we probably have some of the best roofing in the world.
We are kind of unique in our ability to sit on chairs, the majority of animals throughout evolutionary history have some form of tail.
Imagine we meet aliens and every species is incapable of sitting on a chair, it'd make start trek look a little foolish.
TV's and plumbing are still measured in inches in the UK, the measuring system was already in place when we went metric and it was what people were used to. Plumbing fittings are as you said now rounded off to millimetres etc. but the actual physical size is still the same as the original imperial. For example what is referred to as a 25mm fitting is actually one inch (25.4 mm).