Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:37:51 -0500 Message-ID: <55FBA32F.8D8@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 22:37:51 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: The Fourth Dimension References: <55FB0EB5.2316@ix.netcom.com> <3dcc9510-a1aa-43ea-ad93-c6110331af87@googlegroups.com> <1dccbd14-e657-4221-97de-748e1dc2f92f@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 41 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 X-Trace: sv3-KvcHG95ljOLruKUHZ8AAjNFRqKTSVKdwUwDIU68I4W0oEzr0uVlXQIrJU+NjCzof9LRP2OQHJzVl+Bv!xcA0O1bNnHprP7ZRWWek0qaUGXlzp9TykUlVyZ1XcrNdeq3Cof/4EwRTYr7+Rut9RfI/g00U1tJG!XVA25zQ= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2726 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:364437 JanPB wrote: > > On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 5:14:31 PM UTC-7, kefischer wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:48:34 -0700 (PDT), JanPB > > wrote: > > > > >On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 3:46:47 PM UTC-7, I wrote: > > > > > >> And of course using feet in aviation just drives me nuts. > > > > > >And degrees Fahrenheit. > > > > What? You don't like using the rudder pedals? > > > > The convention is a shortened altitude, the convention > > is the English language, and they started using Celsius, > > but had problems with people getting carb icing in private > > aviation because the Celsius unit is too large. > > > > Didn't they go to Celsius decimals? > > I fly a paraglider which means everything is metric (i.e. normal!) because there > are no US paragliding equipment manufacturers (the sport is singularly unpopular > in the States, nobody knows why, it's a big mystery, You have to be stupid to paragliding, or make paragliding equipment. You get sued for every accident...and you get killed paragliding. Leave that sport for countries outside the US, their lives don't matter. Europe has 60 (sixty) > _times_ more paragliding pilots). So my wing is French, my harness is Korean, > my rescue parachute is German, and my variometer is Swiss. The pilots here > don't even bother using British units except perhaps when reading the adiabatic > lapse rates on the NOAA web site :-) > > -- > Jan