I'm amazed they used meters. They must have been converting to metric for our benefit. To my knowledge, everyone in sonar uses "kiloyards" (vomit).
--- Paul Trusten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The CNN story this morning was going really well metrically. The U.S. > Navy personnel were talking about hundreds of meters' distance between > the submarine and the whales. Even the CNN reporter talked about the > distances in meters. Then, a representative of an organization working > to protect the whales from the effects of Navy sonar remarked that the > effect of the sonar on whales was "...a matter of it being kilometers > away, not just a couple hundred yards." Ouch! > > > -- > Paul Trusten, R.Ph. > Public Relations Director > U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc. > www.metric.org > 3609 Caldera Blvd., Apt. 122 > Midland TX 79707-2872 US > +1(432)528-7724 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
