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5_Zvehzda Just Starting Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 1	Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:23 pm    Post subject: It's 43 C here . . . could really use a lake nowadays.
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yorbcbud Lounge Wizard Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 4903 Location: Сорренто, Британская Колумбия, Канада	Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:46 pm    Post subject: 5_Zvehzda wrote: It's 43 C here . . . could really use a lake nowadays. I hear ya, buddy. Did you at least get your A/C workin. Fire_G was dyin in Cali, cause hers broke down. Just when you need something. huh? Murphies Law and all.
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vorteks VIP Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 571 Location: European Union	Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:53 pm    Post subject: camarks wrote: While we are on the metric vs. US systems of measure topic, you might find it interesting that the inch is now defined as exactly 2.54 centimeters! Which famous us american scientist invented the famous " US system of measures"? That s what I meant with the post that started the off topic discussion...where is the independence when a country still uses the (former) references of the former master...system that is more commonly called "imperial". I m constantly amazed by the number of archaisms composing this young nation. How to claim to defend modern universal values when you can t adapt to simple modern universal systems...
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Crabman WayToRussified Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 401 Location: Middlesex	Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:50 pm    Post subject: vorteks wrote: Which famous us american scientist invented the famous " US system of measures"? That s what I meant with the post that started the off topic discussion...where is the independence when a country still uses the (former) references of the former master...system that is more commonly called "imperial". I m constantly amazed by the number of archaisms composing this young nation. How to claim to defend modern universal values when you can t adapt to simple modern universal systems... You know, Vorteks, this probably goes right over the head of most Americans. Americans do NOT use the Imperial System of weights and measures. The Imperial System was defined and standardised in the early 1800s and by that time the USA was already an independent country. The US system of weights and measure, I believe, is called US Customary Units or US Standard units (curiously, most people in the US call the system "English Units"). They never use the term Imperial Units in the US for their system. The US system is based on units in use in certain places in England at the time of the American Revolution. These changed over time and were standardised in the UK and its Commonwealth, but remained unchanged in the US. Length and weight are pretty much the same between the two systems (but there are technical differences). Volume measures (both liquid and dry) are different. This is why gallons and pints in the US are smaller than gallons and pints in the UK (and other Commonwealth countries such as Canada - which also used the true "Imperial System"). By the way, one of the proponents of the reform of standardised weights and measures (later adopted in the UK) WAS a famous American scientist - Benjamin Franklin.
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