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From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
Of John M. Steele
Sent: 30 December 2009 18:45
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:46330] Re
I'm not sure I see the problem. Any time after sunrise on Dec. 30, "tonight"
is the span from sunset (Dec. 30) to sunrise (Dec. 31). It could also be
described as 4 AM tomorrow (or Thursday) morning.
Or 2009-12-31T04:00:00-05:00/2009-12-31T13:00:00-05:00
From
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 16:41:02 Carleton MacDonald wrote:
> "4 am tonight" ? Geez.
>
> I wrote to them asking what they meant.
In Spanish that would be en la madrugada. There is no such word in English, or
French for that matter, but there is the word "oughten", which refers to 3:00
in
"4 am tonight" ? Geez.
I wrote to them asking what they meant.
Carleton
-Original Message-
From: Alert Gaithersburg [mailto:al...@alert.gaithersburgmd.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 14:15
To: Alert Gaithersburg Recipients
Subject: #889 WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
Winter weather
John:
Every household was given its grid reference by means of a postal drop. We
then had to get a white-on-green sign made up (at our own expense!) with the
grid reference on it and stick it on a post at the end of our driveway. This
was a legal requirement.
Hope this helps.
John F-L
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2009 December 30
Gregory Washington, Dean, Engineering, Ohio State University
Dear Dean Washington,
As I read your editorial in News in Engineering, Vol. 81 N0. 3, 2009
about the global economy, I have to ask
Is all teaching of engineering
John,
Do they teach you that grid reference to give to first responders or do they
determine it by address look up?
USNG seems like a good idea but appears to be a bit of a flop here because it
is not used for general mapping and no one knows their USNG address.
Well, I have mine written down
And Canada also uses a metric based grid for first responders. My house in
Ontario not only had a street adress, but also a 6 figure grid reference, which
emergency services would use to locate it.
John F-L
- Original Message -
From: John M. Steele
To: U.S. Metric Association
The army uses the Military Grid Reference System (as does NATO) which is a UTM
projection using metric grid. Assuming the bad guys are ex-military gone
mercenary, this situation would exist today. MGRS is also the basis of US
National Grid (USNG) which the Feds are trying to teach at least to
Only 144 years to go before SI is implemented in (presumably) the US,
according to "Avatar", the latest blockbuster hit. In 2154 the bad guys
measure military distances in "klicks" (I hate the term!) and I think
there is a reference to meters in one part dealing with firing distances.
It is,
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