Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: metric system

["Steve McColman" <steve_mccolman@hotmail.com>]

Well, the starship "Enterprise" uses the metric system!!!   Thats got to
tell you something!  ;-)


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Buchner" <buchner@wcta.net>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:41 AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: metric system


> I see that Ray has already asked for this debate to end, so I won't put in
my comments on that whole thing -- but it does bring up a question that's
on-topic.
>
> If I bought a submarine built in the UK, would its instruments be
calibrated in meters and, um, (would that be N/m^2 's?)?
>
> That is, I see airplanes still measuring altitude in feet (and have been
told that this is still an aviation standard all over the world... true?), I
hear NASA using nautical miles during launches, and SCUBA divers still seem
to use feet. Is that just in the US, or this another of those cases where
distinct special-interest communities use their own traditional "standards"
regardless of the official system of the country they're in?
>