Hmm - my Welsh is embarrassingly limited but I do remember that 'black' is 'du'
or 'ddu' (pronounced dee or thee)- I guess that without the 'yellow'
translation I'm screwed.
> From: p...@phma.optus.nu
> To: usma@colostate.edu
> Subject: [USMA:46225] OT: Citroen was: Ergs???
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov
Citroens and Mercedes. Reliable - safe - boring. (Sorry - my opinion ;-) )
> From: j...@frewston.plus.com
> To: usma@colostate.edu
> Subject: [USMA:46224] Re: Ergs???
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:19:51 +
>
>
> What's wrong with Citroens? I have two - a C2 and a C5, both diesels, both
>
2009 Nov 30
The reference to 1029 ergs is 10 to the 29th power ergs.
This comes from the cgs mind set from before SI was invented.
NASA needs to wake up and join the modern world.
Robert Bushnell
On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:06 PM, ezra.steinb...@comcast.
2009 Nov 30
The reference to 1029 ergs is 10 to the 29th power ergs.
This comes from the cgs mind set from before SI was invented.
NASA needs to wake up and join the modern world.
Robert Bushnell
On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:06 PM, ezra.steinb...@comcast.
As usual, you guys are great!
Thanks so much for the clear explanations, the much appreciated humor, and the
well written letter back to the folks who posted the article. :-)
-- Ezra
- Original Message -
From: "John M. Steele"
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Sent: Monday, November
You guys have ruined my visualization of this energy as 1.6 Mmol of flies doing
pushups. :)
As the two references to the energy differ by three orders of magnitude, at
least one must be wrong. The body of my e-mail to their contact e-mail adress
follows:
In the news article referenced in th
On Monday 30 November 2009 18:19:51 John Frewen-Lord wrote:
> What's wrong with Citroens?
The name of the car is "Citroën". "Citroen" is Dutch for "lemon". ;) I was
expecting Han or Martin to say something first. Now do we have any Welsh
members who can guess this sig?
Pierre
--
I believe in
What's wrong with Citroens? I have two - a C2 and a C5, both diesels, both
untterly reliable, both very strong, VERY quiet, smooth and very 'long
legged' cars (C5 at 2000 rpm is doing 110 km/h). Previous C5 - 180 000 km,
no problems, routine maintenance only. Current C5 - 75 000 km - ditto
Blame the astronomers at NASA. The International Astronomical Union
(IAU) is quite strongly in favor of using SI. I've posted their
statement (from their authors' guide) here a few times before.
But the American Astronomical Society (AAS) is hopelessly bogged down in
cgs (don't ask me which
On Monday 30 November 2009 16:06:39 ezra.steinb...@comcast.net wrote:
> Anyone have an idea why the article (from our friends at NASA ;-) below
> would mention ergs for energy?
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/news/solar_tsunami.html
Beats me. It's not out of range of prefixes applied
A kind of algebra problem that is directly related to metrication: You give
the student a formula, such as the one used in a county or state to compute
the size of a detention pond, expressed in feet and acres, and ask him to
convert the formula to metric.
Pierre
--
lo ponse be lo mruli po'o
Anyone have an idea why the article (from our friends at NASA ;-) below would
mention ergs for energy?
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stereo/news/solar_tsunami.html
Ezra
Bill,
You have fallen into a common trap. You wrote "Ye olde ...". The word "Ye"
first word should be "Þe" ("Þ" is a close approximation to the old English
letter "thorn" - still used in Iceland and in this mail).
-Original Message-
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@col
John wrote "For the UK, there is more history and more obsolete units (but
how many REALLY care about those old conversions)".
Most Brits are not aware of all the obsolete measurements that we have. I
often hear - "Give him an inch and he will take a mile", or as some
newspaper headlines have
Bill, sir:
>.Once the process is learned, it can be adapted for use with ANY units,...
Today's school grader has to become 'tomorrow's industry specialist'. In this
process of half learning (unless I have misread) the child while continuing to
use - Ye Olde English units, gets the impressi
On Monday 30 November 2009 11:54:25 Bill Hooper wrote:
> We were talking about school children not specialists. I agreed that
> teaching conversion may be a useful process to learn, but it should wait
> until algebra and it could be used to convert units OTHER THAN Olde English
> units. (I gave a
We were talking about school children not specialists. I agreed that teaching
conversion may be a useful process to learn, but it should wait until algebra
and it could be used to convert units OTHER THAN Olde English units. (I gave a
number of examples in my earlier reply.) Once the process i
In snipping your remarks to the minimum, I have damaged your color coding.
Sorry.
The Otis approach is interesting. Given the usual "feelings" associated with
color, I am surprised they didn't reverse red and blue. The point of a
succesful metric conversion is that inch-pound design has no
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