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Originally posted by KrazyHorse
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I already postulated that...
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Some people say klick instead of kilometer.Originally posted by LightEning
There's only one reason why imperial is better than metric: It's a lot easier to say "a mile" than "a kilometer". Too much easier, really. I sometimes measure trips in miles simply because saying "a mile" feels so comfortable
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NATO says "klicks". Works for me. Also, a metric mile is ten klicks, so if you just unnaturally cotton to the sound of mile you can do it in metric as well.
But as I said, let the Yanks keep their heritage of confusion. It makes it so much easier to pull the numeric wool over them..."The number of political murders was a little under one million (800,000 - 900,000)." - chegitz guevara on the history of the USSR.
"I think the real figures probably are about a million or less." - David Irving on the number of Holocaust victims.Comment
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I usually say "klomter", or "kay-emm".Originally posted by LightEning
There's only one reason why imperial is better than metric: It's a lot easier to say "a mile" than "a kilometer". Too much easier, really. I sometimes measure trips in miles simply because saying "a mile" feels so comfortable.
But yes, that seems to be the only advantage of the imperial system.Poor silly humans. A temporarily stable pattern of matter and energy stumbles upon self-cognizance for a moment, and suddenly it thinks the whole universe was created for its benefit. -- mbelleroffComment
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who keeps the metric system down... I do.... I do...Comment
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A metric mile is 1500 metres, not 10 000.Originally posted by moominparatrooper
NATO says "klicks". Works for me. Also, a metric mile is ten klicks12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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what's a nautical mile?Comment
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6076 feet- yes I looked that up
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Yeah. You can use 2000 yards as an approximation. Makes it easy to do mental gymnastics. (OOD version of radcon math)Comment
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I know it's somewhere around 1.1 real milesOriginally posted by GP
what's a nautical mile?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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radcon. haven't heard that one in a while. We rounded stuff off so badly. Like the amount of space of the reactor compartment. I can't remember which value we used.Comment
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That is what is run in the Olympics. 1600 meters is very close to a mile and since they also run 400 and 800 meters I don't know why 1500 was chosen.Originally posted by KrazyHorse
A metric mile is 1500 metres, not 10 000.
The Mile run is (last I heard anyway) the only remaining non-metric race that has an official world record. Too much tradition on that one to get rid of it. A four minute miles means a lot. A four minute 1500 means your loafing or not very good.Comment
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I'd feel pretty good about myself if I could run 1500 metres in 4 minutes, considering that my pb for the mile is somewhere around 5m30s....
12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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slowpoke...Originally posted by KrazyHorse
I'd feel pretty good about myself if I could run 1500 metres in 4 minutes, considering that my pb for the mile is somewhere around 5m30s....
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Hey! Then again, the last time I ran a timed mile I was 16...12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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