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It's not simply mental inertia, Al, the costs
involved in shifting just land surveys (for example) would
be enormous.
There is ambiguity in ANY language. A lot of clever
double entender wit is based on such truck.
I really hope you didn't take my little idiotic run
at convention to be a personal affront, I just saw an opening to poke a
little fun at sundry conversion factors. I verified my numbers and units with a fairly trusted,
established, source (Not a primary source: An appendix of an AISC Steel
Construction manual).
A milliliter is derived from a measure of distance
- the centimeter, and is independent of temperature. The gram is derived from
the mass of one cubic centimeter of water at a specific temperature (IIRC 2 deg.
C), and is the standard unit of mass in the metric system.
I went through the above hogwash, which I
know you know, just to illustrate that the fl. oz. is just as
legitimate a unit of volume measure as the liter. Just has a little more obscure
origin, but it's big enough to see with the naked eye.
A ml is much too small, and a liter is much
too big to drink at a setting, warms up too much.
There has been no disagreement to my
knowledge.
What's your schedule for completion and flight
testing?
Happy anniversary.
Jack
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 8:30 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Units of measure
- say what?
I
know Al,
But it was LOTS of fun.
Jack
But as long as we
agree that a quart is always 0.94645 liters, and that a pint is not
always a pound, we can get along quite well.
Al (maybe I’ll go
back and lie down now)
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