On Wednesday 15 May 2002 12:12 pm, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> * Christian Mayer -- Wednesday 15 May 2002 17:39:
> > David Megginson wrote:
> > > /environment/pressure-inhg
> > > /environment/density-sea-level-slugft3
>
> [...]
>
> > But I'm really concerned that these values aren't in SI units.
> >
> > So most of the world (except the US and perhaps a few other countries)
> > can't use those units anymore without big research (aks somebody around
> > here what a 'slug' is... [*I* know it, but that doesn't count]).
>
> ACK! I don't. Given that 90 percent of the world and 100 percent of the
> science community use SI units, "inhg" and "slugft3" make as much
> sense as "5 bananas long", "4 coconuts heavy", ... no actually, they
> make less sense. I =know= how long a banana typically is.   ;-)
>
> m.
>

You must have went to the same uni as the Professor on Gilligans Island ;)

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