And if you add my social security number and divide by my telephone number it will suddenly become apparent that I am a direct descendent of King Tut.
Wotta crock! It got really bad when the number of days in a year was used as as factor in this arithmetic. Obviously this dude slept through dimensional analysis. And he doesn't have a clue about the lack of relationship between orbital period and planetary circumference. Gee, Euric, did you forget to forward this guy's bibliography citing sources for all this "very strong evidence"? Today is February 01, not April 01. It can't be April Fool's Day. Jim On Sunday 2004 February 01 20:36, Chimpsarecute wrote: > The Foot is 1,000th of a Second > July 20 2003 at 10:22 AM Tony Bennett > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I refer to the messages by Eddie and BWMA on the 'Untitled' thread, > dated 19 July 2003, about the foot. > > Eddie claims that the kilometre/metre is the only measurement based > on a natural unit, viz, one-quarter of the earth's circumference. > > BWMA is unsure of the orgin of the foot, but says it may be related > to how the eye sees certain things. > > There is very strong evidence that the ancients calculated the foot > at precisely one 1,000th of one second of a degree of arc. Or to put it > another way, the inch at one 12,000th of one second. > > Thus one second of arc, around the earth's circumference, is 1,000 > feet. > > One minute is 60 times greater, viz. 60,000 feet. > > One degree of arc is 60 times greater than that, viz. 360,000 feet. > > And multiplied by 360 degrees, this comes to 129,600,000 feet - very > close to the true circumference of the earth. > > However, one gets even closer if one multiplies the 360,000 feet of > one degree by the number of days in a year, say 365.24. Then the number of > feet making up the earth's circumference comes out at around 131,486,400 - > and here one is getting remarkably close to the true circumference of the > earth. > > 131,486,400 feet works out at 24,903 miles (equivalent to 40,077 > kilometres). > > There's plenty of evidence that the ancient Hebrews, Egyptians and > Babylonians were masters of astronomical and trigonemetrical sciences. They > used measures of inches, feet and cubits, sometimes referred to as 'sacred' > measures. The Cheops Pyramid is a classic example of a structure built > using these 'sacred' dimensional units. > > Viewed like this, the metric system may be seen not, as Eddie sees > it, as an attempt to 'connect' us to a natural unit, but rather an attempt > to *disconnect* us from the true origins of many of our units of dimension > and distance. -- James R. Frysinger Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist Senior Member, IEEE http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: Physics Lab Manager, Lecturer Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University/College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 843.953.7644 (phone) 843.953.4824 (FAX) Home: 10 Captiva Row Charleston, SC 29407 843.225.0805
