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SkyMaster:

--- Quote from: Tepe on February 15, 2020, 07:18:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on February 15, 2020, 04:08:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gromitt on February 14, 2020, 05:34:14 pm ---Yes, but the picture is from a Swedish fighter jet with metric instruments.

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Yes, we all know that. But that still doesn’t mean anyone said Sweden was communist.

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Somebody did: "Except for some communist countries, nobody in the world is using meter as an altitude unit in aviation."

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Sweden, and all European countries, use feet.

 :)
tooki:

--- Quote from: Tepe on February 15, 2020, 07:18:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on February 15, 2020, 04:08:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gromitt on February 14, 2020, 05:34:14 pm ---Yes, but the picture is from a Swedish fighter jet with metric instruments.

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Yes, we all know that. But that still doesn’t mean anyone said Sweden was communist.

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Somebody did: "Except for some communist countries, nobody in the world is using meter as an altitude unit in aviation."

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|O and where in that sentence does it mention Sweden at all? It doesn’t. You’re making a connection where none exists.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: xrunner on February 13, 2020, 01:19:32 am ---Well the world is big.

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Only if you use imperial.

Since the world is metric, two people from distant countries with history, culture and language far apart feel at home when they express magnitudes in the universal units of the metric system.


--- Quote from: KL27x on February 13, 2020, 02:26:34 am ---^That's a bit disrepectful.

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Is it disrespectful to wish people to be lucky?


--- Quote from: DBecker on February 13, 2020, 04:15:43 am --- "Officially Accepted" means that pragmatic reasons over-rides the purity of the religion.

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There's nothing more practical than metric. And that's the "religion". Metric was created because the other systems are not practical, nor universal, nor rational, nor other appreciative adjectives.


--- Quote from: SkyMaster on February 13, 2020, 02:28:10 am ---Except for some communist countries, nobody in the world is using meter as an altitude unit in aviation.

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I always find it amusing that people use feet to measure altitudes due to the inherent difficulty humans have to walk on vertical surfaces.

And communist countries using meters for altitude means that communism is not so bad after all. It's cringe-worthy to know they are ahead of us capitalists and have embraced such a rational system of units while there are people among us still extolling the fictitious "advantages" of the imperial system for aviation.
SkyMaster:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 16, 2020, 07:44:31 pm ---

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bsfeechannel, you still are hiding your country.

1/ Which country do you originate from?

2/ In which country are you living?

 :)
xrunner:

--- Quote from: xrunner on February 13, 2020, 01:19:32 am ---Well the world is big.

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--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 16, 2020, 07:44:31 pm ---Only if you use imperial.

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Really? According to calculations, the Earth has a mass of 5.9722×1024 kg. That's in SI units and seems pretty damn big to me.  :-//



--- Quote from: SkyMaster on February 17, 2020, 12:18:41 am ---bsfeechannel, you still are hiding your country.

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