Posted on 07/22/2005 9:05:23 AM PDT by Perdogg
Check out the profile page, pay close attention to the height. These are some really short racers.
No it would be just kilopascals. Pascal is a kg/m-squared
1 Pa = 1 Newton/m^2.
1 Newton = 1 kg m/second^2.
Check out:
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/FedRegister/FRdoc59-5442.pdf
A square foot of ground covers slightly more area than a board foot of wood.
Sorry.
F/A sorry. It's friday.
If it was good enough for the Wright Brothers and Werner Von Braum, its good enough for me. To hell with metric.
Wasn't there a mission to Mars where a spacecraft crashed on Mars because someone made a mistake converting Imperial to Metric?
That explains a lot. In the 60's when NASA owned space travel, they didn't mess with metric.
For short lengths, we would be using a combination of millimeters and centimeters (millimeters for very short lengths, centimeters for measuring size of animals including human height).
For longer lengths, we would be using meters and kilometers (meters for shorter distances and kilometers for longer distances).
For weights, we would be using milligrams, grams and kilograms (milligrams for pharmaceutical amounts, grams for food weights and kilograms for everything else).
For cubic measurements, we would be using milliliters, cubic centimenters and liters (milliliters for small containers, cubic centimeters for gasoline/diesel engine displacement, and liters for larger containers).
The output of engines would be measured in kilowatts for horsepower output and Pascals/kiloPascals for torque.
For weather, we would be using the Celsius scale for temperature and millibars for air pressure (where 980 millibars is standard sea level air pressure).
Interestingly enough, Americans would probably NOT use liters/100 km for calculating fuel economy that is common in Europe. We would probably be like the Japanese, where fuel economy is calculated in kilometers/liter.
The metric system is bogus "progress". All converting did was chase our industries out of our own markets.
Take for example the automobile industry. Today, engine displacement is usually measured in liters, not cubic inches as in the past. That's why the 302 cubic inch displacement V-8 engines are labelled 5.7-liter engines at least since the middle 1980's. Indeed, most four- and six-cylinder engine displacement is measured in liters or cubic centimeters at least since the 1970's. Also, auto mechanics have to use metric tools given the large number of Japanese and German-designed cars now in the USA. You try using a English-measurement wrench and socket set service a Honda car!
Of course, the food industry has also heavily invested in measuring by metric measurements--all food package labels have both English and metric measurements, and soft drink bottles in one and two-liter sizes have been around since the middle 1970's.
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