Metric bottom timer?

[Rick Murchison]

Originally posted by donacheson


Metric bottom timer? The whole world measures elapsed time in seconds, minutes, (and hours).

HHHhhhaaarrrr!
He had us goin' there, didn't he???
Hooo, boy, I sure got suckered in...
Metric time, indeed...
Rick

 

[Scubaroo]

"Bottom timers" as a dive instrument usually measure depth as well... the Uwatec is available in both metric and imperial, for measuring depth in metres and feet. You could argue though that a $5 waterproof watch is a bottom timer... (suppose it is really! no argument required) but then you'd need a seperate depth gauge.

You're right Rick, we are stuck with some imperial measurements for good... can you ever see football changing from yards to metres?

Did you know, for example, that the diameter of the solid rocket boosters on the space shuttle was determined by the width required between traces on Roman chariots to accomodate two "standard" chariot horses?

Yeah, isn't that do do with the wheel ruts from roman chariots forming the first rudimentary roads, so all carts from then on were built to the same wheel spacing, which continued over into trams and trains.... and the need for the booster rockets to fit through a particular train tunnel somewhere as that's how they were being transported??? At least thats the version I heard.

Taking it back a step further, you could argue that they are the result of horses bums growing to a particular size as that was the most efficient body shape and size to be able to survive on ice-age steppes and able to escape predators such as sabre tooths and cave lions... or have I been reading too much Jean Auel???

 

[Ari]

You can use it both Metric and Imperial and for less that 300$ you also get a nice Nitrox computer, log your dives and download it and so on.

Ari

 

[voidware]

there is a simple solution to everyone's problem (well not chris's, except i think oms has one). It's easy, being a child of "metrification." Just think of them separatly. I know 40C is hot and 90F is hot (yeah they're not the same thing). I know i can't drink a liter nor a gallon, but I know what they are. you buy coke by the gram, weed by the oz, and booze by the fifth (well half-gallon, err, right, forget all this, uh, um, yes). Yeah, two systems just don't work, but deal with it (I know if anyone here was handed a metic depth guage and tables, they could figure it out)

brandon
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