On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:45:28 Henschel Mark wrote:
Well, I can help you visualize the size of metric units.
I think of a hectare as two football fields side by side.
This is useless to me, as I don't watch football.
Think of a kilometer as five city blocks. Or a railroad train 60
Well said, Pierre. ! m is the length of my arm to my nose, one tenth of it
is the width of my palm, etc, 100 m is the length of the 100 m dash that
everybody runs or observes in schools and in athletic events, and 1 km was
the distance from my house I used to cover walking or biking to my best
Top of my hip-bone to the ground is one metre.
My pace is about 80cm useful when I need to confirm the distance from the
stumps to the boundary on a cricket field (OK, you guys might prefer to
replace stumps with home base etc).
Martin Vlietstra
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu
Mon, 01 Jul, 2013 12:28 PM PDT
From KSL-Radio, Utah
We're a little prideful in America. We refuse to adopt the metric system
even though it actually makes sense and we refuse to call soccer football
like the rest of the world
