Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Viking Navigation and Ancient Swedish Measurements

Oh please.
The Vikings
discovered Minnesota and the Chinese are really funny looking Vikings.


Yes, and we refer to our Chinese cousins as
"smoked Sweeds"

And they did it all while eating nothing but Lutefisk! :-)

Just how ****ed up was the fish that turning it into Lutefisk was an
*improvement*?

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:25:52 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:17:44 -0500, chuck wrote:

withheld wrote:
Has everyone forgotten that the statndard inch is actually
1/5e8 of the earth's diameter pole to pole?

KLC Lewis wrote:
"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
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I'll bet it really galls the ISO that the Earth's circumference
doesn't fit nicely into the metric system.

40,066 KM divided by 100 degrees divided by 100 minutes divided by
100 seconds = 40.066 meters. A messy little number that just
doesn't
fit.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or
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"Rich Hampel" wrote in message
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It wont be long until the EU 'resets' the prime meridian through
the
administrative capital of Brussels .... just like the French tried
to
do a short time after the French Revolution ..... and then defined
the
meter as ~ 1/10.000,000 of the circumference of the earth.

Just remember this is what you get when you install authoritarian
socialism .... nothing make 'sense' and you HAVE to blindly follow
the
'rules' .... ask Microsoft how they feel about the EU.

All such arbitrary measurement systems are silly. We should base all
measurements on the half-life of Cesium, as the good Lord intended.


May I suggest that the following link will illuminate this thread with
particular emphasis on navigational units?

http://www.celticnz.co.nz/VikingNavigation.htm
Viking Navigation and Ancient Swedish Measurements

Oh please.

The Vikings discovered America. The Vikings discovered Central
America. The Vikings discovered South America. The Vikings
discovered Hawaii. The Vikings discovered New Zealand. The Vikings
discovered Minnesota and the Chinese are really funny looking Vikings.

What's next - the Vikings landed on the Moon and established a colony
on Mars?

~~ sheesh ~~ :)

They were my relatives.

Which explains a lot.

They were very good.

At what?

They heard the raping and pilaging was good in all those places. Why else
go?

Ah...well then...

Boating, raping ad pillaging.

In article ,
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:48:12 -0600, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:

All such arbitrary measurement systems are silly. We should base all
measurements on the half-life of Cesium, as the good Lord intended.

Crap - now I've got Pepsi all over the monitor!!! :)

ROTFL!!!!

I found that Diest Mug Rootbeer and BlueTooth Keyboards Don't mix well
at all..... Hope yours likes Pepsi better than mine liked Rootbear....

Bruce in alaska
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add a 2 before @

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:32:53 GMT, Bruce in Alaska
wrote:

In article ,
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:48:12 -0600, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:

All such arbitrary measurement systems are silly. We should base all
measurements on the half-life of Cesium, as the good Lord intended.

Crap - now I've got Pepsi all over the monitor!!! :)

ROTFL!!!!

I found that Diest Mug Rootbeer and BlueTooth Keyboards Don't mix well
at all..... Hope yours likes Pepsi better than mine liked Rootbear....

Fortunately, it was only the monitor.

And I love Mug Rootbeer. I love root beer period. Sarsaparilla too.
And Birch Beer. I used to make my own Root beer.

Now that I think about it, why am I drinking Pepsi? :)

Please stick with the Pepsi, I have a fair amount of PEP stock. But then
again, I prefer Diet Coke!

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:03:18 -0500, "ACP" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:32:53 GMT, Bruce in Alaska
wrote:

In article ,
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:48:12 -0600, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:

All such arbitrary measurement systems are silly. We should base all
measurements on the half-life of Cesium, as the good Lord intended.

Crap - now I've got Pepsi all over the monitor!!! :)

ROTFL!!!!

I found that Diest Mug Rootbeer and BlueTooth Keyboards Don't mix well
at all..... Hope yours likes Pepsi better than mine liked Rootbear....

Fortunately, it was only the monitor.

And I love Mug Rootbeer. I love root beer period. Sarsaparilla too.
And Birch Beer. I used to make my own Root beer.

Now that I think about it, why am I drinking Pepsi? :)

Please stick with the Pepsi, I have a fair amount of PEP stock. But then
again, I prefer Diet Coke!

I do drink Pepsi - Diet Pepsi actually. I hate Diet Coke.

Pah...

Oh, I also own Pepisco - it's been a good performer.

At least you loyal to holdings. I used to be a loyal Pepsi drinker
(non-diet) until I got hooked on DC.

"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
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And they did it all while eating nothing but Lutefisk! :-)

Just how ****ed up was the fish that turning it into Lutefisk was an
*improvement*?

I think they preferd Lutfisk to the alternative.
/Lars J

Bruce in Alaska wrote:
In article ,
krj wrote:

Peter Bennett wrote:
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:12:52 GMT, keith_nuttle
wrote:


Since the nautical mile is defined as one minute of latitude, I doubt it
will ever disappear in earth based navigation.


The Nautical Mile was originally based on a minute of latitude, but
the length of a minute of latitude varies with latitude, so an
International Nautical Mile is now defined as 1852 metres exactly, or
6076.11549 US feet, approximately, according to Bowditch.



I believe that the nautical mile is based on the minute of LONGITUDE not
latitude. Longitude doesn't vary with changes in latitude (or attitude).
That's why when you are using paper charts (remember those) you measure
the distance with your dividers on the longitude scale on the east or
west side of the chart.
krj

Hmmmmm..... I think you have your terms "Wrapped around the Axle"
here.... Nautical Miles is based on "Minute of Latitude" which does
NOT change since the distance from the Equater to the Poles is ALWAYS
the SAME, from any place on the EQUATER. Therefor, when dividing that
distance in Degrees, MInutes, and Seconds, will ALWAYS produce the same
Unit Lengths. Where as Longitude is the cicumfrence of the earth at
the equater divided into Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds, and that DOES
change Unit length as you move closer to the Poles. Longitude is marked
on the bottom and top of Maps, where Latitude is marked on the right and
left had edges of Maps. One ALWAYS uses the Latitude markings for
distance because they do NOT change Unit Length, EVER.....

Bruce in alaska

Bruce has this right, but do watch out for very large area charts,
like, say, the North Atlantic (do they still print this?). To measure
nautical miles, you have to use the latitude scale near the latitude
you are measuring because the printed "length" of a minute of latitude
changes up and down the chart. This is an oddness of Mercator
projections. Similarly the shortest distance between two points on a
large area Mercator chart is usually NOT a straight line (see great
circle courses). But the Earth is round, and a real minute of Latitude
is always a nautical mile.

"Lars Johansson" wrote in message
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"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
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And they did it all while eating nothing but Lutefisk! :-)

Just how ****ed up was the fish that turning it into Lutefisk was an
*improvement*?

I think they preferd Lutfisk to the alternative.
/Lars J



Rotted shark?

In article ,
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:32:53 GMT, Bruce in Alaska
wrote:

In article ,
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:48:12 -0600, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:

All such arbitrary measurement systems are silly. We should base all
measurements on the half-life of Cesium, as the good Lord intended.

Crap - now I've got Pepsi all over the monitor!!! :)

ROTFL!!!!

I found that Diest Mug Rootbeer and BlueTooth Keyboards Don't mix well
at all..... Hope yours likes Pepsi better than mine liked Rootbear....

Fortunately, it was only the monitor.

And I love Mug Rootbeer. I love root beer period. Sarsaparilla too.
And Birch Beer. I used to make my own Root beer.

Now that I think about it, why am I drinking Pepsi? :)

because that is what the Little Lady likes and it is the only thing
in the house......Dahhhhhhh.....