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  1. Calvin19
    Roundabouts are AWESOME. I just wish the idiots in boulder would learn to use them. I was a delivery driver and always loved it when I would get honked at by people who think the roundabout has a "right of way preference" to their street. As in most traffic is on one road, but they do not have to slow down or yield when someone is coming on the other road. Offensive driving, when practiced in a legal way, is the best. (200,000km experienced city and country delivery driver)
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    Archaic shortcuts in construction, while I'm sure were worthwhile at the time, are not something needed with modern architecture. International architects from the US and everywhere else, including an increasing number of US national architects, are now using the metric system.
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    this is awesome. Our founding fathers were english. And the english now use metric units. It appears you didn't take the hint to look on the back of the dollar bill. Seriously, take a gander at the left side of it. The great seal? Yes. Take a close look at it. Notice any symbology? Suggest anything about a few of our founding fathers? Well, not really suggest, come right out and says it actually. Does that suggest to you anything about why the metric system wasn't adopted by our founding fathers when it was first proposed in 1791? Remember, by that time, the founding fathers were no longer English, so why did they hold so tightly to that "old" system? And why specifically a metric square might actually be sort of ironic? Nothing I can find on the seal has anything to do with measurement. Please elaborate.
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    just buy the most expensive stuff. it's way safer with skis on. you will be fine. -SPACE-
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    this is awesome. Our founding fathers were english. And the english now use metric units. It appears you didn't take the hint to look on the back of the dollar bill. Seriously, take a gander at the left side of it. The great seal?
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    well... yeah.
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    this is awesome. Our founding fathers were english. And the english now use metric units.
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    A few months ago I went into the local Home Depot, and asked the overweight plaid shirt wearing "tool guy" if they had any metric tapes. "why da hell would ya want that?" in a half laugh, half sneer tone. ..."school project". I replied. Amazed by the ignorance. "I don think I seen one here, might want to try mcguckins" I went to the tape measures and found one (only one) that had lightly colored metric units on one side. It was also hard to find a square that had metric. super lame. I imagine most of the anti-metric people as that fat, ignorant little man.
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    Oh dear, dear no. "The World" uses any one of a number of different calendars and time standards. Hell, some of them can't even agree on when "Daylight Saving Time" begins or ends let alone what to even call it. Some entire countries are 1/2 hour out of sync with UTC. A couple are 15 minutes fast or slow! Hell, we have one state in the US that isn't even in sync with half of itself some of the time. you are not talking about time measurement here, but a base time. Local time. All the measurements are the same. A meter is a meter is a thousandth of a kilometer no matter where it starts. (just like an hour is an hour, in Hawaii or Greenwich.)
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    I bet we could agree on getting rid of time zones then huh GMT worldwide. done.
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    Do I have to quote your original accusation? The only evidence of superiority for either unit of measurement is the expanse and prevalence of it's use. And yes, you're right. Time and direction are based on nothing. I had gone backwards in my mind through my schooling and arrived at a backwards assumption. I was thinking arcsecond-NM/blah. trying to sound smart is taxing me. I admit the only superior quality in Si is that it is called Si and everyone else on the GOD DAMNED planet uses it. you metrication naysayers are just mad the french came up with it.
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    Dude, time is not measured in US imperial units or metric. It is irrelevent. However, it would help our (the metrication supporters) in that it is the World standard in time measurement, and arguably everyone uses it.
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    Then why are only SOME of the units base 10? Where is your base 10 watch? Where is your base 10 calendar? Where is your base 10 compass? What -exactly- makes base 10 so special? Why not binary? Time is based on the mathematic properties of physics and geometry. As is direction. Calendars are based on solar cycles and other astronomical observable properties. NEITHER of these are metric or imperial. It seems you are trying try distract from your leaking theory by citing an irrelevant conclusion. (red herring argument).
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    The Gimli Glider is a pretty famous plane crash, on the same note as this thread. -SPACE-
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    I am a commercial pilot, of course I use feet. Better speak english as well.
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    WRONG. This is the AVIATION standard units. NOT the world standard units. Metrication is also taking in the measurements of fuel and cargo loading. I bet that feet (for altitude) will be used in aviation for a long time. Distance, used in arc seconds of earth for nautical miles, is outdated, but has a firm grasp in navigation of almost all types.
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    not standard: adj-varying from or not adhering to a standard. Based on current calculations, research shows that more people in the world read or understand the Harry Potter book series' fictional currency "Galleons" and "Sickles", than there is people in the world using the US imperial system.
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    Oh dear. It's not a "world" standard" any more than driving on the right side of the road is or HDTV is. Metric is simply "a" standard. Standard:adj-commonly used or supplied. adj-established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority. in a world view, by definition, the standard would be metric.
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    the assertion that the imperial system works is not evidence that the metric system is inadequate. The burden of proof lies in the accuser. From reading this entire thread, (after bumping it from a few years) I have found no such proof, or even evidence of it's equality to the metric system. I move to close the argument in an accord by my agreement that neither system holds significant superior qualities in and of itself, but that some people have simply too much slothful intolerance of change to convert to the world standard.
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    Do you honestly believe the scientists and engineers working on that project didn't "learn the standard"? Don't be ridiculous. Anybody working at that level absolutely knows both. The issue wasn't knowing "the" standard, but rather one of assumptions and not checking to ensure whatever standard was being used as being followed. This could just as easily happen in any design situation simply by misplacing a decimal point. From the accident report: source:ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/reports/1999/MCO_report.pdf I agree that were either system universally STANDARD, that the problem could have gone either way [the fault is not in either unit, but rather the mistake of several engineers in their failure to correctly convert and failure to double check] All I am saying is, as I have said before, the world STANDARD is metric units. This problem would not have occurred with standard units.
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    I'd suggest it's important to anyone who likes the lights to go on when they flick a switch. Anyone who uses a cell phone. Anyone who watches a flat screen TV. Anyone using a computer to read this forum. Anyone who uses a GPS. Anyone driving a hybrid car. Anyone who has had or may have a CAT or MRI scan. Anyone with a CYPRES in their rig.... They may not realize the importance, but ignorance IS curable. What about the guys building space vehicles? We lost a 125mil mars orbiter to the "traditionalist" people who can't spend the time to learn the standard (again, 95% of the world) measurement system.
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    Boogers

    Calvin19 replied to amstalder's topic in The Bonfire

    Shit dude, I give myself facial trauma a few times a day. Ever hear of a deviated septum?
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    AWESOME
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    Because, you know, there's no way an iPad could ever be plugged into ship's power. Besides, it's still a good idea to have alternatives (i.e. paper charts, a flashlight, etc, on the off chance that the electronic devices fail...) I'll just take my 2nd iPAD. I'm waiting for the next gen to get my 2nd iPad. Should be 128gb and have the pixel density of my iPhone4 skychartspro/foreflight. We all just need to remember to LOOK OUTSIDE. Big sky theory only works on tracking dives. -SPACE-
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    http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4066840;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread [prideful grin for being ignorant of astrology]