XPost: alt.disasters.aviation, alt.aviation.safety, alt.sci.physics 
 XPost: aus.aviation.airspace 
 From: s@s.s 
  
 Coop  wrote in 
 news:3F1E8B69.D84A65C8@ozemail.com.au: 
  
 > Gene Nygaard wrote: 
 > 
 >> Bertie's unexplained fucking around with followups ignored. 
 >> 
 >> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:02:42 GMT, Bertie the Bunyip  
 >> wrote: 
 >> 
 >> >"AliCat"  wrote in news:bfhgk3$egsnt$1@ID- 
 >> >131018.news.uni-berlin.de: 
 >> > 
 >> >> 
 >> >> "Blippie"  wrote 
 >> >> in message 
 >> >> news:wKudnYOTMcs7voGiXTWJiA@brightview.com... 
 >> >>>The pressure itself can either be 
 >> >>> measured in millibars or heptaPascals, which are 
 >> >> the same thing. 
 >> >> 
 >> >> Hectopascals please. It's a big enough mess 
 >> >> without you introducing smoe kind of base 7 
 >> >> system! 
 >> > 
 >> >It is hectoPascals 
 >> 
 >> No, it is not. 
 >> 
 >> But both errors (heptaPascals and hectoPascals) are just what the 
 >> screwballs deserve, for coming up with this hare-brained scheme to 
 >> hang onto an obsolete unit by cloaking it in a pseudo-SI name, chosing 
 >> one of the worthless prefixes which are not powers of 1000. 
 >> 
 >> Yes, the symbol is hPa, but that doesn't mean you put an irregular 
 >> capital in the middle of the spelled out word.  It isn't kiloWatts or 
 >> milliAmperes either, and their symbols are kW and mA. 
 >> 
 >> The proper units for atmospheric pressure are those used in Canadian 
 >> weather reports to the public on their radio, TV, and newspapers: 
 >> kilopascals. 
 >> 
 >> Gene Nygaard 
 >> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/hectopas.htm 
 >> Gene Nygaard 
 >> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/ 
 > 
 > I prefer millibars. 
 > Because if the millibars get too low, then it's time to go to the 
 > minibar, or if you really want a skinful, to an actual bar... 
 > 
  
 Snort! 
  
 Bertie 
  
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