On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:23:46 +0200, Marcel Kuijper
<zoepetier_nothing_here@hotmail.com> brought the following:
>/BEGIN RANT/
>
>Can people please stop using the Imperial System??
>
>I was reading an article of the Airliners.net forum on another near miss
>mid-air collision during a perpendicular take-off at JFK.
>
>One guy said :"They spoke of 500 feet seperation."
>
>Another guy replied :"I heard it was more like half a mile."
>
>Now here, with the metric system, when someone says "half a kilometer",
>everyone else knows it's 500 meters, because 1 kilometer is 1000 meters.
>It's a nice round number.
>
>Metric System
>----------------------
>10 millimeters = 1 centimeter
>100 centimeters = 1 meter
>1000 meters = 1 kilometer
>
>
>Imperial System
>------------------------
>100 inches = 8.33 feet
>1000 inches = 27 yards
>1 mile = 5.280 feet
>1 mile = 1.760 yards
>
>Half a mile = 880 yards or 2.640 feet.
>
>I'm sorry, but this system just makes no sense. Where's the logic?
>
>Or is my vision towards the Imperial System just slightly skewed?
>Cos it's giving me a headache everytime.
Easy to explain.. we use inches to make things in the shop.
Everything is inches and thousandth of an inch (1 mil). A part
could be 3.75" x .75" x 0.188" think. Ex: last cut on the milling
machine is 2-1/2 thousandth. Also for objects that fit inside a
room, like a 42" diagonal video screen and a 10" cooking skillet,
a 6" long adjustable wrench. :))
Feet are used for both indoor and outdoor projects. :-]
Yards are for use in sports like football.. no, not footie ball!!
Miles are for our motorcars. Miles of road, Miles per Gallon of GAS,
sorry not petrol!!
-G
