Jokes aside when it comes to machining equipment, decimal imperial
tolerances are much better to work with than metric tolerances. That's why
Airbus continued to use inch-thousands for some engineered materials for
quite some time.
Same goes for altitudes, which is more precise per thousand feet than
meters, and probably why they haven't replaced it yet for pilots.
Alan
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Dallas Congleton <
dcongleton at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> You need to take your medication :^)
>
>
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> I beg to differ with you Karl. Metric system makes sense in more ways
>> than one. It is the British system that is confusing for most people with
>> fractions and inches and the base 12 measuring system.
>>
>> I think this was a conspiratorial plot by the British Crown to brainwash
>> people in the USA and in this way keep the USA from using the metric.
>> Imagine if we would have went metric back in the early 1900 - with the
>> force of
>> USA innovation we would have flooded the whole European theater with USA
>> goods.
>>
>> Also probably the whole world and we would be much more economically
>> powerful today then we are now. Teachers would teach a simple measuring
>> system
>> to students. Students would like math better.
>>
>> I believe the British inches and gallons system has made us less
>> competitive in the world then we could have been.
>>
>> As I said the Crown was worried the USA would be too powerful - therefore
>> they had to brainwash us to keep the USA in its place. Unfortunately even
>> the Crown was not powerful enough to keep USA completely down. That is
>> the
>> real indignity.
>>
>> Michael Balahutrak
>> Houston, TX
>> 53 TD
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