Friday, April 24, 2009

Ice Mountain bottle

You may have notice Ice Mountain bottled water is leaner in size compared to bottles before. Kudos for helping the environment.
No one should indulge in bottled water, come on, drink tap water, boil it filter it if you want it cleaner.
Those who refuse to drink that deserve to pay tax on that environmental hazard plastic even if it is reduced in size.

Today I notice the size of the bottle. It says .5 L (1pt and 0.9 oz).
Ok, first I notice the inconsistency of .5 and 0.9. It is mathematical lazy not to include a 0 in front of the decimal point.

The 0.9 oz is rather interesting. Why not give you a full oz but 0.9 oz?

Waita minute let me convert 0.5 liter to see how many oz there are:
Go to google and type in "0.5 l in oz". It says 16.9070114 oz. I think it is a bit confusing to say 1pt 0.9 oz, it is better to say 16.9 oz.

So bottled-water goes metric. But some old-British system values are here to stay. For instance, yards in football (it will never convert to metric), 8.5" x 11" paper, no one will convert that to metric either.

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