"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.

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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 ~~ :)

I dunno about the Moon, but they certainly beat us all to Mars.
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/viking.htm