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Date: | Sat, 8 Feb 2003 11:42:35 -0800 |
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Following are some more candidates for job cuts:
I. The metric system.
a.} kg are used to measure weight .. but a kg is not a weight unit
b.} who knows what a hectare is? Sure it's 10,000 square meters .. OK so what does 10,000 square
meters look like?
Oh! You say a hectare is about 2.4 acres! .... Good let's use acres.
c.} who knows what a Pascal is? Sure it's the SI unit of pressure. {Pressure exerted on an area
of 1 square metre by a force of 1 newton; equivalent to 10 dynes per square centimetre}
Wow! .. but one psi is a loaf of bread sitting on aspirin bottle
d.} hertz? so what is hertz?
OH! hertz means cycles per second? And I have to convert hertz to cps to use it?
e.} who can remember meters, cm, mm, decas, pico, nano, micro, milli, kilo, mega, giga, tera.
What ever happened to 500 {inches} & 0.004 {inches} & 0.00000000347 {inches}
f.} my door is 6' 6"
SI doors are 198.12 cm
g.} pray we don't go to war .. in WW II, a pilot would yell .. "Bogies @ 3 O'Clock!"
Now the poor pilot will look at his digital watch and it'll only be 2:30 ..
jb
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