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There was a push in the 70's to move the US to the metric system, even some road signs were made with kilometers...but it never took off.

Originally Posted by DDT

Originally Posted by Полуношник

Originally Posted by DDT

The metric system needs something between centimetres and meters.

Decimeters?

I forgot about those! Does anybody really use them?

No. I know, Johanna said they are used, but I don't think so. I don't remember anybody using them. Actually we have a half-meter (полметра) between centimeter and meter.

Originally Posted by DDT

Originally Posted by Полуношник

Originally Posted by DDT

The metric system needs something between centimetres and meters.

Decimeters?

I forgot about those! Does anybody really use them?

In science and technology it is used where it is needed (though I don't remember now where exactly). Also 1 litre = 1 dm^3.

Originally Posted by sperk

There was a push in the 70's to move the US to the metric system, even some road signs were made with kilometers...but it never took off.

Exactly! I thought I posted about this in another thread, can't remember now... but when I was in grade school, they forced us to learn the metric system stating that the US was going, for certain... any day now... SWITCH TO METRIC once and for all, and we needed to know it. To be ready for the big switch... I'm still waiting... tick, tock, how many years later???

When my girls were in 5th grade they had a unit in math or science on metric. They asked me why they had to learn it. I told them so when they go visit a country that uses it, they will be able to understand it!

Darn it. We still have -20C here!!! Boo-hooo. The whole winter's been abnormally cold, -20, -30. There were just a few relatively warm (-10, -15) days since December. It's not normal for Novosib. I've read on the net today that we haven't had a winter like this in a hundred years... Talk about Global Warming.

Oh, I forgot to tell you all about a scene I saw some weeks ago, where the frost in Moscow region was especially hard. I was in Balashikha (a suburb of Moscow), walking along a big tower block. It was VERY cold; I had a long дубленка (sheepskin coat?) on, and in whole, was very warm-clad. Anyway, I felt very cold - I was going and thinking "Oh my God, how cold it is!". Suddenly a door of one of the entrances opened, and a woman calmly went out of the house. She wore... a short housecoat and house slippers only! Her calves were naked!!! Oh, and she was not drunk! She pushed some buttons on the door intercom and was awaiting for an answer. She didn't look cold at all! She acted as if it was a summer. Finally someone answered through the intercom. The woman said "Hi, mom, it's me... No, nothing happened, I just wanted to check if the intercom works in your flat... Oh, so it works, okay." And she calmly went into the house again.
I felt proud for us stern hardy courageous Russian people.
Well, seriously, I was shocked. Because it really was VERY cold, and she didn't even shiver.

Originally Posted by Оля

She wore... a short housecoat and house slippers only! Her calves were naked!!! Oh, and she was not drunk! She pushed some buttons on the door intercom and was awaiting for an answer. She didn't look cold at all! She acted as if it was a summer. Finally someone answered through the intercom. The woman said "Hi, mom, it's me... No, nothing happened, I just wanted to check if the intercom works in your flat... Oh, so it works, okay." And she calmly went into the house again.

So what? You can't get cold too much in 10 seconds, if you come out of a warm place.
At school we sometimes went to the nearby store to buy snacks in our shirts only even if it was -10 C (about 6 minutes outside). It was cold but entirely tolerable.

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

So what? You can't get cold too much in 10 seconds, if you come out of a warm place.
At school we sometimes went to the nearby store to buy snacks in our shirts only even if it was -10 C (about 6 minutes outside). It was cold but entirely tolerable.

gRomoZeka, -10 and -25 is a great difference. When you get outside at -25, you right away feel quite cold, even if you have warm clothes on.
And it was not 10 seconds while she was outside. It was probably about half a minute.

It takes time to get cold. Nothing would happen in several minutes.

I would like to bring back this thread as I have learned via a few PMs that it has been VERY hot in Russia (and surrounding areas) and up until a few days ago it has been very hot here on the East Coast of the US as well!

Now as most of you know... my knowledge of the Russia/Ukraine area is -1,000 so the idea of it being 100 degrees F in Russia took me by surprise! Now I don't think there could be snow there all year round, but I also don't think of it being a place that would get soooo warm. I think if you were to stop 100 Americans on the street and ask them how hot it would get in Russia in the summer, none of them would ever guess 100!

For June, we set a number of records for heat but it does tend to get very hot here and also VERY humid. Some of our commuter trains broke down due to the heat and the passengers could not get out of the trains and they got heat sickness while waiting to be rescued.

They call it "HHH" for "Hazy, Hot and Humid" and they have air quality alerts. When it gets to code red ... some of the buses and pools are free and they open up free cooling stations for people who don't have air-conditioners:


So, what has been been like in your area?

У нас, как известно: "Спасение утопающих дело рук самих утопающих!":

Cool!
Where are these fountains? Are they famous?
Could you add a comment to the photos?
I have never been in Moscow but I am guessing they might be there....

Originally Posted by Hanna

Cool!
Where are these fountains? Are they famous?
Could you add a comment to the photos?
I have never been in Moscow but I am guessing they might be there....

I'm not quite certain about the second and the third one, but the first picture shows famous Frendship of Peoples fountain at ВВЦ (Всероссийский Выставочный Центр), former ВДНХ (Выставка Достижений Народного Хозяйства) in Moscow:



Btw, my sonny loves this fountain (it's at Europe Square, near Kievskiy Railway Station in Moscow):



Btw, the bunch of bended metal rods in the center is a sculpture entitled "The Abduction of Europa".

That is TRULY grand. Impressive. I like it.
The ВВЦ building is very elegant too.

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London has no fountains that impressive!
The best fountains I have seen were in France. But these ones in Moscow seem just as impressive.

Stockholm has one large modern fountain at the centre of town, just outside the "house of culture".

It's totally illegal to swim there of course, and there is technically no way of getting into it, because it's surrounded by traffic:



more pictures of nice fountains, from everyones cities!

This small one is in my town:



The most beautiful fountains I ever saw are in Petergof:

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Now as most of you know... my knowledge of the Russia/Ukraine area is -1,000 so the idea of it being 100 degrees F in Russia took me by surprise! Now I don't think there could be snow there all year round, but I also don't think of it being a place that would get soooo warm. I think if you were to stop 100 Americans on the street and ask them how hot it would get in Russia in the summer, none of them would ever guess 100!

In my area 100 F (38 C) is possible but considered to be an extremely hot temperature. Such a temperature will not stay for a long time, only a two or three days and never longer than one week. 90 F (32 C) is more typical for Novosibirsk but also considered as hot. Today it is about 80 F (27 C). This past weekend it was about 70 F (21 C).

Originally Posted by Basil77

I'm not quite certain about the second and the third one...

Второй - это фонтан из комплекса на Манежной площади. Это самый центр Москвы, 50 метров от Кремля. Там вся площадь такая.

Вот это место осенним вечером, когда фонтаны спят.

Mother of pearl, in New Jersey it's about 100 degrees today, and will be hotter tomorrow! This is madness!

July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s public-health chief urged companies to adopt a siesta regime for workers struggling to cope with a record heat wave.

“Employers should consider moving shifts to earlier and later hours and allowing extended breaks during the peak of the heat,” Gennady Onishchenko said on Rossiya 24 state television.

Temperatures have broken July records in dozens of cities in European Russia, including Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara. Moscow on July 15-16 may break the all-time record of 36.8 degrees Celsius (98.2 Farenheit) set in August 1920, Tatiana Pozdnyakova, chief specialist at the Moscow Meteorological Service, said by phone.

The government has declared a state of emergency in 16 grain-producing regions as the worst drought in at least a decade damages crops and livelihoods. Russia, which is vying with Canada to rank as the largest wheat exporter after the U.S., expects this year’s grain harvest to decline at least 12 percent to 85 million metric tons.

Temperatures in central Russia will exceed the norm by more than 7 degrees Celsius this week, reaching as high as 38 degrees Celsius in some areas, according to the Meteorological Service’s website.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...heat-wave.html

Some pictures:

http://english.sina.com/world/p/2010/0712/328872.html

Drunk Russians drown escaping heatwave:
http://www.euronews.net/2010/07/15/d...ping-heatwave/

Actually it's a sensationalist header and quite silly really
After mentioning about the people who died goes on to say that the heatwave has caused a lot of damage across Russia.