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From: "Jeff Whaley" <jwhaley@intldata.ca>
To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: metric system
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:58:55 -0500
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One Canuck's perspective:
I grew up with the Imperial System until about grade 10; at that time the
country coincidentally switched to the metric system and became officially
bilingual ... well we did and we didn't. We spent billions of $$ converting
road signs from Miles to Kilometers and adding the French equivalent to
Road, Street, Avenue, etc ... (hopefully we did both at the same time).

The signs changed and the airwaves were flooded with temperatures in
Celsius; however, we really didn't switch much else. Our coke and beer cans
now come in 355ml servings; the size was already correct, we just switched
the units; we do however, have 1 liter oil and gas sizes. So beware when you
come north in the summer and see $1.30 at the pumps ... that's per liter.

I like the road signs in kilometers now, because if it's 400 km to
destination, at 100kph that's a 4 hour drive. In miles (240) at 60mph (or a
mile a minute) that's 240 minutes ... hmmm /60 that's 4 hours. But I still
think in feet, yards and miles, so I understand what one poster said about
not being able to see anything ... I can picture 300 yards or a mile but I
can't picture 300 meters or 1 kilometer.

It makes sense that water freezes at 0 degrees instead of 32 and I'm well
used to temperatures in Celsius but Fahrenheit is a finer scale. The sense
of temperature change from 25C to 32C is not as obvious as the equivalent
78F to 90F.

Lumber sizes are still cut in 2x4, 2x6 and drywall sheeting is still in
1/2", 3/4", etc but plywood is now switching the mm sizing. For thin
sheeting like aluminum for example I hope it never changes from .025" or
"thou" designation ... it just makes sense.
JWW 

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Charlie England
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:55 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: metric system

Russell Duffy wrote:

> I know, if you really want to stick it to the rest of the world, 
> change the
> TIME to metric system and of course degrees 100 degrees to a circle 
> etc.and
> anything else you can think of - that should stuff things up good and
> proper.
>
>  
> Hilarious George (and good points) :-) 
>  
> Cheers,
> Rusty (trying to make my Dynon stop outputting meters in the data)
>
>
The gub'mint timeclocks at the Postal Service already count in 100'ths 
of an hour. This is actually a fairly common practice because it makes 
timekeeping metric (kind of...).


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