It is amazing how many things we take for granted just because they've always been that way. I've often thought that 33,000 feet is a pretty strange number for athe cruising altitude of commercial airliners, but I didn't try to make a metric connection.
The nubmer is exactly 6.25 miles (thankss Google calculator!). It's also a rounding up of the 32,808.399 feet in 10 km. Does anyone happen to know the origins of this measurement? Is its proximity to 10 km more than just coincidence? And, why don't they tell us that we'll be cruising at 6 and a quarter miles? -- Nick Kocharhook -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Rot-13
