Michael wrote:

Now of course we know the earth is slightly pear shaped ...

It isn't pear-shaped, it's an oblate spheroid.


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Michael wrote:

Now of course we know the earth is slightly pear shaped ...

It isn't pear-shaped, it's an oblate spheroid.


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Sounds likea goodname foraboat. Or a rock band. Or the ex . . . .

LOL
M.

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| "Wally" wrote in message
| It isn't pear-shaped, it's an oblate spheroid.


| Sounds likea goodname foraboat. Or a rock band. Or the ex . . . .

BITTER? ;-)

CM

orthe ex-waistline I used to have. LOL

M.


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"Michael" wrote in message
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| "Wally" wrote in message
| It isn't pear-shaped, it's an oblate spheroid.


| Sounds likea goodname foraboat. Or a rock band. Or the ex . . . .

BITTER? ;-)

CM

Michael wrote
The non-metric Navy's of the world use a standard
of 6,000 feet or 2,000 yards.

The US Navy uses the international nautical mile of 1852 m.



www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf

http://geodesy.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/Fed...doc59-5442.pdf

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Michael wrote
The non-metric Navy's of the world use a standard
of 6,000 feet or 2,000 yards.

The US Navy uses the international nautical mile of 1852 m.

Probably depends on which Navy. Atlantic Navy is not the same as Pacific
Navy and each branch is God in their own bailiwick. On the Navy ships's
contracted to union crews we use 11.25 degrees per point and 2000
yards per nm.

The US military in general uses the metric system, and has done so for many
years, far more than the civilian counterparts. As with most cutting edge
changes (anti smoking, anti drinking, anti racism come to mind) the
military is far ahead of their employers. The Navy is the sole remaining
exception each geographicly separate command doing 'their own thing ' ad
nauseum.

The ultimate in this parochial silliness is Military Sealift Command (Moe,
Shep, and Curly because Larry is too brainy to stoop that low). In truth
the many right hands havenot a clue what the many left hands are doing.

M.