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post Feb 3 2007, 04:41 PM
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A mile is in the eye of the beholder wink.gif

Statute, nautical, imperial... yadayadayada...


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post Feb 3 2007, 04:51 PM
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I'm all for the metric system. If I could convince the USAF Reserve to let me run 2 km instead of 2 miles for my biannual physical fitness test, life would be better... tongue.gif


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post Feb 3 2007, 04:57 PM
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The great thing about using a variety of units: miles, km, sols, days, etc.
is there are so many more milestones to celebrate. The more the merrier! biggrin.gif
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post Feb 3 2007, 06:23 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 3 2007, 05:36 PM) *
What's a mile?

(well - it's a European spacecraft after all smile.gif )
Doug

Gee, Doug. I thought you British were just as good as us Americans for knowing how far a mile is on the road! (Even though you put the signs on the “wrong” side of the road.) You holding out on us?
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post Feb 3 2007, 06:27 PM
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If the UK would switch to KM, I'd be very happy.

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post Feb 4 2007, 11:05 PM
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I'll admit, I am a stick in the mud when it comes to metric...for space exploration, great, but as for every day life, give me miles, feet, pounds, and inches. Well, off to watch the game...


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post Feb 5 2007, 07:30 AM
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Ted, why to complicate your life using Km in space and Miles on Earth?
I have impression that the only way to convince all to use the same unit system is... to create a new one!
I know, is a madness... anyway, what do you think of the space covered by light in a billionth of sec? (hey, you should like it, is pretty close to a foot!). Then use all power of 10 units (metric is better from this standpoint, no doubt).
Even better, we could divide the day in 10^5 "seconds" and we will have such a lenght unit equal to 259mm or about 10 inch)... ok, stop the metric madness! tongue.gif


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post Feb 5 2007, 09:17 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 3 2007, 06:27 PM) *
If the UK would switch to KM, I'd be very happy.

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Fine. Just don't interfere with the pint.
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post Feb 5 2007, 09:42 AM
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Wouldn't you rather have a litre smile.gif

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post Feb 5 2007, 10:00 AM
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Even that's not strictly SI. I'll have a cubic metre and a pork pie please.
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post Feb 5 2007, 10:49 AM
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I'm reminded of a rather foul song I co-wrote for a laugh whilst a teenager...I'll share it with you next time I see you - not suitable for forum consumption smile.gif

John the Grocers life fell through the ground,
When he got nicked for selling apples by the pound.....

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post Feb 5 2007, 10:50 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 5 2007, 09:42 AM) *
Wouldn't you rather have a litre smile.gif

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We have some things in liters. Mainly softdrinks.


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post Feb 5 2007, 11:15 AM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ Feb 5 2007, 11:50 AM) *
We have some things in liters.

So you're not even consistent? tongue.gif


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post Feb 5 2007, 11:52 AM
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Basically, in the 1970s, there was an abortive attempt to make America metric, but a few things did change and have stayed. My understanding is that something similar happened in the UK, but got a lot farther. I know the whole Celsius thing has been a point of confusion when I am on that side of the puddle (which collectively over the course of my life would total up to about a year), because, well, 40 degrees instinctively sounds cold to me, even though I know that it isn't on the Celsius scale.
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post Feb 5 2007, 03:29 PM
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As an American, I never got to see these "in person," but I saw one on a news story here. You see, when Britain went over to a decimal money system, they ran a series of public service announcements urging people to use the new decimal money.

The PSAs had a little jingle that I still recall, perhaps because of the actual way they stated some things. Specifically, while the decimal money was called decimal, the old-style money-counting system was referred to by the abbreviations for pound, shilling and pence, which for some odd (and I'm sure quite English) reason was abbreviated to "LSD." So you got:

"Decimal shops
Give decimal change,
LSD shops give...
LSD change!"

Hearing that for the first time, I figured there was no problem -- you'd have no issue getting rid of LSD change. Just invite a lot of people from San Francisco... biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

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