I recall that one of the first transatlantic television transmissions was
designed to reflect off an orbiting reflector. It was live between London and
the US. The screens went blank. Turns out the engineers were smart enough to
realize that circular polarization reverses polarity upon reflection, but not
thorough enough to learn that a British right hand thread is an American left
hand thread. Classic case of the audience getting screwed by a thread.
Colin K7FM
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
Sent: Aug 4, 2005 11:09 AM
To: Osten B Magnusson <sm5dqc@areteadsl.se>, Patrick Hoppe <phoppe@wi.rr.com>,
"'Dr. David Kirkby'" <david.kirkby@onetel.net>, amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Metric system
Personally, I find working to 0.001 inch easier than working to 4 microns. This
is because I'm working to a single unit, rather than a number of them.
Beer is far better in 20ounce pints than 16 ounce, for obvious reasons.
However, there are some reasonable establishments in the US that serve quite
good beer in 20ounce pints.......
Remember the airliner in Canada that had to do a dead stick landing because of
the pounds/kilograms of fuel problem? Plus the space probe?
But for real fun, try integrated circuit design with feature sizes in microns
and chip sizes in thousandths of an inch......
73
Peter GW3RZP/P
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