@Marla (speaking for myself only) I think that's a tribute to the resilience of the EE.SE community that a mod like me hasn't single-handedly crashed the site into a smoldering wreck.
@Asmyldof We have a 20HP compressor, and we can't hear it when it comes on - because it's housed in someone else's lab.
I'm actually thinking of adding an extra tank for each next to my desk to negate the tubing, but it'd help most for the vacuum, since -0.7bar doesn't flow that quickly
@BrandenBoucher Perhaps that's why imperial units are still around. They are easy to visualize, they are based on human dimensions. They are okay for everyday life. They are awkward for scientific life, when we have to go 6 orders of magnitude above or below everyday quantities.
@NickAlexeev personally my ideal system would have been a base 12 SI system
and i've found that for a lot of things if the fundamental measuring scales were a bit over 30% larger for we could have gotten constants that are near 10^(whatever)
i would be interested in a system that is basically a multiple of natural units
like v was roughly 3 times smaller so c is 100000000
