Do you know what the Beaufort Scale is?

#1

Don’t look it up.

No one in my office knows what it is.

  • Never heard of it. Tell me more.
  • Never heard of it and I’m proud of my ignorance.
  • I think I know what it is but I’m too shy to say
  • I know what this is, I feel your pain saps

0 voters

Surrounded by ignorance.

Can’t take much more.

#2

Was thinking about the Mohs Scale yesterday (I think there was a question on University Challenge about it).

#3

Drove through a 7 this morning. Fresh.

#4

I had to look this one up.

I’m going to state that I don’t think it’s as famous but I’m prejudiced.

We learned about the Beaufort Scale in junior school.

#5

There was! re: apatite.

(I didn’t get it)

#6

Well I thought it was the chilli one but that’s scoville, oops

#7

There was, and they came up with a dumbass answer to it as well IIRC.

#8

Big fan of the iceberg size classifications:

#9

This is one of those where I know I’ve heard of it, but I always have to look up what it is. It could come up daily and I think I’d still be in that situation.

#10
#11

Ah yeah, I didn’t get it either, but I do know the top and bottom markers of the scale at least.

#12

You could say that you have no apatite for learning!

Really you could say that.

#13

Didn’t realise until quite recently that the richter scale is logarithmic. Fun

#14

Yeah actually made me want to memorise it, which I tried to do after the programme finished. Didn’t know feldspar was on it, which pleased me. Probably a decent thing to know and will come in useful.

#15

all the best scales are.

edit or did I mean exponential? Let’s go with either/or.

#16

Sometimes think my bathroom ones are

#17

Hard question?

#18

Fucking corundum, mate.

#19

Think I know but not in great detail. I stumbled across it on Google one day when there were mad high winds and my office closed early. Amusing because my office building is named after him.

#20

I only know the Mohs scale from doing geology at uni. Talc is 1, diamond 10, quartz 7. Can then probably have a stab at most other rocks hardness based on that.