Ok, I know this will probably open another can of worms, but I believe we need to standardize some of our units. I'm half way through changing all the FlightGear code to follow the new standard and will try to get my changes committed shortly. For those of you writing new code or contributing to existing code, here is the new standard for FlightGear units to be used throughout our project:
1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope Time between slipping on a peel and hitting the pavement = 1 bananosecond Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 Billigram Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong 365.25 days of drinking low-cal beer because it's less filling = 1 lite year 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon 1000 pains = 1 kiloahurtz Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line 454 graham crackers = 1 pound cake 1 million microphones = 1 phone [10^6 X 10^ -6 = 1] 1 trillion microphones = 1 megaphone 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles 2000 mockingbirds = Two kilomockingbirds 10 cards = 1 decacards 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton 2 kilograms of falling figs = 1 set of Fig Newton twins [for the Hattiesburg crowd] 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen Washed away by the Crimson Tide while generating 1 Joule/second = Tippicanoe and Tyler Watts 10 rations = 1 decoration 100 rations = 1 C-ration 8 nickels = 2 paradigms 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale Hospital = 1 I.V. League I'm sure you will all come to appreciate the long term benefits of our use of standard units as time goes on. Thanks you, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
