XPost: alt.disasters.aviation, alt.aviation.safety, alt.sci.physics 
 XPost: aus.aviation.airspace 
 From: steve@blackbritain.net 
  
 "Gene Nygaard"  wrote in 
 message 
 news:at3phv4nac5ls6fs6f2kvdp0a1shp2pjfk@4ax.com... 
 > 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. 
 > 
  
 I'm in two minds on the kilopascals vs 
 hectopascals/millibars argument. Whilst from a 
 scientific point of view I'd like to see the SI 
 unit, or a  10 factor of it used, it must be 
 said that a significant change in pressure is of 
 the order of 1 hectopascal/millibar, seeing it 
 buried somwhere right of a decimal point could, to 
 some, make it seem less significant. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
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