XPost: alt.disasters.aviation, alt.aviation.safety, alt.sci.physics 
 XPost: aus.aviation.airspace 
 From: austerj1@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... 
  
 Coop 
  
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