We say exactly the same thing here Jack....except we say it all about the
imperial gall ..feet...inches..hehe col (aussie)
>From: Cougarjack@aol.com
>To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
>Subject: Re: [MV] 1 U.S Gallon = 4.5461 litre is WRONG!!!
>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:57:00 EDT
>
>Nobody seems to have the right conversion at their fingertips, and that's
>exactly why the US remained with feet and inches and gallons and acres.
>So does anyone know why they made the liter such an odd size? I don't
>believe I ever saw a gas can that was 3.79 anything. I'd probably give it
>away if I had one, because where am I going to find a pump that dispenses
>in metric anyway? Would the can fit in a gas can holder? Can you imagine
>trying to figure out the mix ratio of two stroke gas when the oil is
>premeasured for 2 1/2 US gallons, the gas can is 3.79 liters, and the mix
>must be 50 to 1? Can you say smoke? This only gets MORE SERIOUS when you
>start measuring tiny things, like bearing clearances. thousandths and tens
>of thousandths seems like a straightforward system to me. I can see ten
>thousandths and I can grok it. What am I supposed to do with a micrometer
>that reads out .0098 mm? Lessee...at 2.5 centimeters per inch, and 2.2791
>dollars to the pound sterling, how many millimeters..!!!!!!! I'll tell you
>what I do, I use it to clamp my road maps to my sun visor! LOL! really BIG
>metric micrometers make great ground !
>clamps too. They have MOST inter
>esting numbers on them!
>The problem is not whether things should be measured in metrics or English
>or SAE, but that they are measured HOW PEOPLE THINK! I get so frustrated
>trying to remember newton meters and kilo-pascals and milliliters and cubic
>centimeters that I sometimes resort to gauging things with a stick and a
>rope. What's wrong with different countries using different systems anyway?
>If a plane built with SAE bolts, lands in Paris, does it fall apart because
>Paris uses metric bolts? Why should a US person think a French guy would
>understand cycles per second and that there are 16 ounces in BOTH a pound
>and a pint? Why should a US citizen understand megahertzes and francs?
>After all, He drinks wine in 946 ml bottles, and he speaks French, right? I
>drink Mountain Dew in 6 inch green bottles, and I speak English. (well,
>American anyway!) And I'd like to know how many centimeters there are in a
>French Economy Size box of detergent? Differences are cool sometimes. When
>there's nothing good on TV!
> and I have watched all my tapes
>, I like to get out my landrover manuals and read about "using a Whitworth
>1/2" wrench, (which is big enough for a boat anchor, btw) snug the bonnet
>fixings until they stand proud of the joint washer.When the skirt comes
>back from the panel beaters, fit the fingers along the driver's side into
>the keeper slots in the boot.Twist anticlockwise.(hehe!) It's not necessary
>that I understand this. It's enough that's it's funny as a two headed goat.
>These great manuals are the only books in the world that are written in
>english but you can't read a damned word!
>If metrics is so universally great, why isn't time figured in metrics too?
>Lessee...got a minute? 1 hr = 1000 milli-hours, 1 day = 24/8760th of a
>year, half passed six =....???? ooops! The speed of sound would be
>indecipherable to pilots, because the would go insane trying to remember
>how many meters in a megawatt, and all the landings would be late. Lincoln
>would have said "762120 something or other ago, our forefathers...".
>Sheesh! everyone would have walked away shaking there heads in confusion.
>Helen of Troy, whose face launched a thousand ships, would have then
>established a good system for rating the fair sex. But what will your
>girlfriend say when you tell her she rates 365 millihelens? You better have
>your P's and Q's together or you're gonna get smacked!! Of course, if we
>were all metric, there would be 100 letters in our alphabet too, right? Or
>would that be litres? Why does algebra work if there are only 26 letters,
>and "I" is reserved?
>In closing, picture in your mind 6 inches....got it? Not hard, right? Or,
>here you go, pull on this wrench handle with 36 kilopascals per newton
>meter.(or is that 36 millipascals per kilometer?) Pour out .5461 liters
>into a what? How big is that?? ....see what I mean? Even the furreners
>can't do it! LOL!
>Jack, who voted no for Esperanto too!
>
>In a message dated Tue, 26 Jun 2001 8:56:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Hummer1234@aol.com writes:
>
><<
>In a message dated 6/26/01 2:15:10 PM, tonygull@ozemail.com.au writes:
>
> >That is the definitive answer, well 4.54609 to be exact.
>
>NOPE!!!! It is 3.79 liters to the US gallon!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>There are 33.8 US ounces to the liter and 128 US ounces to the US gallon.
>128/33.8 = 3.79 liters to the US gallon.
>
>
>
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