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
...

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.

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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.

MAYBE it will be the default, but knots will still be there. It's all computed in a microprocessor, and it's just a few lines
of firmware to calculate knots, or even furlongs per fortnight..


"Oliver Fleming" wrote in message ...
Hi,
I have been told that all new equipment, chartplotters, speedometers and the like will not have knots as a speed option.
Knots will be phased out and KPH will be the new standard for marine equipment.

Has anybody heard of this?

If so where?

Some links please if available.

Thanks
Oliver Fleming

"Chuck Tribolet" wrote in news:12n1tcogs8lc102
@corp.supernews.com:

or even furlongs per fortnight..


Hmm....must be a displacement hull.....(c;

Larry
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Try this link


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...22/nbook22.xml


Alec



"Oliver Fleming" wrote in message
...
Hi,
I have been told that all new equipment, chartplotters, speedometers
and the like will not have knots as a speed option.
Knots will be phased out and KPH will be the new standard for marine
equipment.

Has anybody heard of this?

If so where?

Some links please if available.

Thanks
Oliver Fleming

Its a darn good thing that some knots are being phased out ........ I never
can tie half of them!



























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"Oliver Fleming" wrote in message
...
Hi,
I have been told that all new equipment, chartplotters, speedometers
and the like will not have knots as a speed option.
Knots will be phased out and KPH will be the new standard for marine
equipment.

Has anybody heard of this?

If so where?

Some links please if available.

Thanks
Oliver Fleming

NE Sailboat wrote:
Its a darn good thing that some knots are being phased out ........ I never
can tie half of them!




Actually...they're being phasered out.




Robert B
35s5
NY

"NE Sailboat" wrote in message
news:grfch.87$Gp2.68@trndny06...
Its a darn good thing that some knots are being phased out ........ I
never can tie half of them!

So are you saying that in the end we'll all have the bends?

"KLC Lewis" wrote in message
et...

"NE Sailboat" wrote in message
news:grfch.87$Gp2.68@trndny06...
Its a darn good thing that some knots are being phased out ........ I
never can tie half of them!

So are you saying that in the end we'll all have the bends?

Oh, bite me.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
...
"KLC Lewis" wrote in message
et...

"NE Sailboat" wrote in message
news:grfch.87$Gp2.68@trndny06...
Its a darn good thing that some knots are being phased out ........ I
never can tie half of them!

So are you saying that in the end we'll all have the bends?

Oh, bite me.

I meant bight me. :-)

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
...
"Capt. JG" wrote in message
...
"KLC Lewis" wrote in message
et...

"NE Sailboat" wrote in message
news:grfch.87$Gp2.68@trndny06...
Its a darn good thing that some knots are being phased out ........ I
never can tie half of them!

So are you saying that in the end we'll all have the bends?

Oh, bite me.

I meant bight me. :-)

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com



Just don't let it happen again. lol