fstringham
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 87
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 Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject: Metric vs English oboy |
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Alright, I have stayed out of this one....but....as an old used up Chemistry
teacher I would spend the first few weeks of every school year my best to
explain how....from my view point and the rest of the sciencde community why
the metric system of measurement IS Superior to the "english" system of
measurement. With that said what ever system is used use it and always
measure trice and cut once.
Flame suit RV list approved so let it rip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frank (at) SGU and SLC wiring / fiberglassing......plus RV7A
| Quote: | From: Gilles Thesee <Gilles.Thesee(at)ac-grenoble.fr>
Reply-To: aeroelectric-list(at)matronics
To: aeroelectric-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Re: 23 Msgs - 11/19/06
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:06:05 +0100
<Gilles.Thesee(at)ac-grenoble.fr>
Lee,
>This metric "world vs the U.S." debate is entertaining.
I would like to point out that my original question was "When or why did
the reversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit occur in aviation ?". The debate
was all between North American citizens.
There is no such thing as a "world vs the US" debate in Europe. We just use
units, period. We are trained to change units if need be.
Just remembering to convert into inches and pounds when talking to US
citizens. We consider it a matter of politeness.
> But I want to make sure I've got it straight: Americans are stupid for
>messing up one of the many space probes we sent to Mars because two
>different U.S. research and space sub-agencies used different measuring
>systems (of the 15-20 or so there are to choose from), causing that probe
>to crash.
It came as a shock to the aerospace and scientific community to discover
that the top brass and engineers in this project did not even give any
consideration to the problem of multiple unit systems.
Units and dimensional analysis have a paramount importance in science and
engineering.
That is...in the rest of the world ...
Best regards,
Gilles, just joking
http://contrails.free.fr
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