--- Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andy Ross -- Wednesday 15 May 2002 18:44: > > Typical (North American, anyway) altimeters still > > report feet, VSI indicators read in fpm, etc... > > Same here. But please don't tell me that US > meteorologist work > with slugft3.
Don't be so quick to slight slugs, feet, etc. The fundamental units of each system are ***arbitrarily*** defined and, because of that each system requires everybody to agree on a common set of arbitrary definitions. The only real advantage that SI has over any other is that scaling is done in powers of ten and a system of prefixes define those scales. So: Meters are not better than feet, just different. Kilograms are not better than slugs, just different. (yes, SI defines a scaled unit as the standard for mass) Liters are not better than gallons, just different. etc. etc. etc. > PS: I withdraw my estimatian that 90% of the world > are using SI-units. > I bet the Chinese have some silly non-standard units > on their own. :-P > > m. > > > > -- > "Computers in the future may perhaps only weigh 1.5 > tons" > -- Magazine "Popular > Mechanics", 1949 > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
