Brent, Han sirs:
The sea transport industry has certainly undergone a sea-change.
the nautical mile and the knot,
The confusion between *mile & kilometre* shall remain for ever UNLESS a
parallel definition for Nautical kilometre is ACCEPTED by CGPM, like the one
I suggested in my contribution: The Metric Second (1973). I now, project
that there is NO NEED to change the clock-face from 12/24-hours BUT
alongside *DIVIDE* the hour into 100 x100 units to define 'Decimal Second
(sd)'.
When metre is accepted as: '1/10^5th of Pi/180 (one degree); Nautical
Kilometre shall automatically be *1/100th of arcAngle pi/180* to shelve
Mile/feet/yards in favour of Nautical Kilometre (NKm'). I sent one of my
documents to Chairman, New York Academy of Science on 2002 May 09, while in
New York earlier. This can be seen at:
http://www.brijvij.com/NYAS_2K20509.doc
My works on Calendar Reform/construction and *bridging the task for SI*
units for time & length have been an ongoing process since 1970's.
Regards,
Brij Bhushan Vij
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From: "Brent Cliveden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [USMA:36683] RE: sea transport and metrication
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:57:59 -0400
The sea transport industry has certainly undergone a sea-change.
Brent
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Of Han Maenen
Sent: Saturday, 29 April 2006 08:43
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:36681] sea transport and metrication
On the general page on Wikipedia about metrication I found references to
air
and sea transport. What it says about air transport is probably correct.
Both industries continue to use the nautical mile and the knot, but I have
seen techical data on ships on many websites, where all data were in
metric,
(except the speed in knots) and propulsion power in kilowatt or megawatt!
That's the way to go, death to the stupid horse power! I have a strong
feeling that sea transport has made huge progress.
Han
