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Re: The Fourth Dimension

From	Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	sci.physics.relativity
Subject	Re: The Fourth Dimension
Date	2015-09-18 08:00 +0200
Organization	Good company
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Dne 18/09/2015 v 04:50 JanPB napsal(a):

> 
> 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, 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 :-)
> 

OTOH, the airplane industry, traffic control and related weather reports
use feet, unfortunately.


-- 
Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer )

Knowledge makes great men humble, but small men arrogant.

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The Fourth Dimension The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-17 12:04 -0700
  Re: The Fourth Dimension gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-17 14:07 -0500
  Re: The Fourth Dimension Koobee Wublee <koobee.wublee@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 12:55 -0700
    Re: The Fourth Dimension The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-17 13:31 -0700
  Re: The Fourth Dimension Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 15:58 -0500
    Re: The Fourth Dimension The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-17 14:40 -0700
      Re: The Fourth Dimension benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 01:05 -0400
        Re: The Fourth Dimension The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-17 22:42 -0700
        Re: The Fourth Dimension The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-17 23:01 -0700
          Re: The Fourth Dimension Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 08:40 +0200
            Re: The Fourth Dimension The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-17 23:59 -0700
              Re: The Fourth Dimension Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 10:28 +0200
                Re: The Fourth Dimension mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-09-18 01:51 -0700
              Re: The Fourth Dimension Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 08:23 -0500
                Re: The Fourth Dimension Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 15:41 +0200
                Re: The Fourth Dimension The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-18 10:56 -0700
      Re: The Fourth Dimension Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 08:20 -0500
    Re: The Fourth Dimension mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-09-17 23:28 -0700
  The Fourth Dimension fuller.david@hotmail.com - 2015-09-17 14:49 -0700
  Re: The Fourth Dimension JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 15:46 -0700
    Re: The Fourth Dimension JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 15:48 -0700
      Re: The Fourth Dimension kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-17 20:14 -0400
        Re: The Fourth Dimension JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 19:50 -0700
          Re: The Fourth Dimension The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-17 22:37 -0700
            Re: The Fourth Dimension Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 08:22 +0200
            Re: The Fourth Dimension JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 12:01 -0700
          Re: The Fourth Dimension Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 08:00 +0200
            Re: The Fourth Dimension kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-18 03:00 -0400
              Re: The Fourth Dimension mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-09-18 01:09 -0700
              Re: The Fourth Dimension Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 10:33 +0200
      Re: The Fourth Dimension Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 07:56 +0200
    Re: The Fourth Dimension mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-09-17 23:30 -0700
  Re: The Fourth Dimension Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 08:20 +0200
    Re: The Fourth Dimension Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 11:19 +0200
      Re: The Fourth Dimension mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-09-18 02:33 -0700

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