Greetings,
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Lee wrote:
> Jay Nugent wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Lee wrote:
> >
> > > David Aikema wrote:
> > >
> > > > On December 22, 2001 06:51 pm, Lee wrote:
> > > > > > It got to 37C about 1.30 and is still 30C at the moment. Fans do little
> > > > > > to cool one down and I had 3 travel jobs to do today. That meant driving
> > > > > > with aircon struggling, so much so that I burnt my hand getting back in
> > > > > > after an hr and 30 on the steering wheel, also the safety belt buckle was
> > > > > > just to hard to fasten. There is no sign of a good storm to cool things
> > > > > > down.
> > > > >
> > > > > 37C? What does that come to in real temperature (F)?
> > > >
> > > > C = 5/9(F-32) so... which works out to roughly 100F
> > > >
> > > > David Aikema
> > >
> > > That's one thing about us rude colonials we still use the mother country's
> > > measuring system so we don't have to remember all those complicated math
> > > formulas.
> >
> > Too bad we blew it back in the late 70's, early 80's when we were
> > *supposed* to move over to the metric system. Base-10 is FAR better a
> > measurement scale than Base-the-kings-feet and other arbitrary scales.
>
> Metric is just as arbitrary as a king's foot being 12 inches long rather than 10 and
> 36 inches from tip of his nose to finger tips. In the universe there's nothing more
> arbitrary than the circumference of the Earth or boiling and freezing point of pure
> water at one standard Earth atmosphere.
Yeah, but how do you start from scratch unless you happen to have the
king's body laying around somewhere. At least with a *water* standard,
your referance is available in abundance on the vast majority of the
planet. There was only ONE king and he's pretty rotted away by now so we
can't really be sure that our measurement system is even in calibration
anymore... ;-) We can recalibrate against a water standard at anytime.
--- Jay
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deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin (1759)
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