On Jul 12, 6:23 am, Marcel Kuijper
<zoepetier_nothing_h...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> /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.
>
> I'm just glad Google provides a simple way to convert one to the other.
>
> /END RANT/
>
> --
>
> Marcel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (HC153VE)
>
> "Some wars last for decades. Others last for three periods."
Marcel, I don't use English or Metric system...all far too complicated
for me. I use the:
VIKING HORN SYSTEM.
It is all based on the unit of the HORN. For instance:
A standard meter equals about 2.2 horns
I am 2300 horns from downtown Champaign, IL
When I used to go to the bars in my younger years, I would hear the
girls talk about "That guy is a "one horner"
There eyes would really light up when they mentioned another guy was a
TWO HORNER....that was impresive to them.
Me?....I am about a 1/10th horner......They were never impressed
with that.
Hope I clarified things for ya.
MM
