Some would say that Jim B's door is 6.5 feet tall.

Jim B. is really intent on having us go back to the old days of cubits and
such measurements, isn't he?  I don't wonder why, with his penchant for
thinking that spacemen building pyramids, there being divine intervention
in mathematics and such (not to mention little men being seen in all shadows).

Oh, and by the way Jim, your door is not built to 198.12 inches because of
a failure of the metric system, it is due to old ways or the demand of
fools to continue using feet and inches.  If we did it by metric properly
the door would be 200 cm and it would be universal.  Now if I buy a door
imported from Mexico or Canada or even Botswana I have to cut off 1.78
cm.  That goes for my old door or the new instert I get at Home Despot.

I am presently recording the details of an early 19th century fireplace
surround and mantle and am facing much difficulty due to the fact that it
was built to proportion and not to any standard of measure.  Metric is
saving me countless hours of having to enter coordinates in feet and inches
or even in decimal of engineering.  If I need to know that it was planned
to be 5 feet high I convert, but for scientific or recording purposes
metric is beyond a doubt the best system for the job.  The use of the
computer  almost demands metric or at least engineering feet.

Also, the rest of the world will understand it when I am done.

There is a place for archaic measurement, but only by conversion for
comparison to determine relationships to archaic measures.  (i.e. record in
metric, convert to feet and inches to see a pattern or compare to
historical records.)  You do it all the time in to prove your
pseudo-science, Jim, why can't you do it when measurng a doorway?

As one who uses metric all the time, I now find it difficult to think in
terms of "feet" anymore.

         Dan W.



>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