> 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
I have a good friend who lives in Champaign. She calls it "the 'Pain".
I may visit her later this summer or early fall. We shall see.
Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit. - John S. Nichols
