Sigh. This is SO wrong. A kilometre (yes, that's how it is spelt) is a thousand metres, a mile is just over 1600 metres, hence, the above picture should show the right hand (modern) Mister Davis, as being 5/8ths the size of the left hand (with the defunct measurement).
I have a brother who lives in the United Kingdom still, he is in his 70s, and he seems unable to move into the new world of decimal measurement, still thinks he is 5 feets and eleven inchies. Here in New Zealand, the first volcano report a few days ago had the smoke plume as 1400 FEET high, obviously the editor was an old crony, for we went metric in 1987. (maybe a pilot ? they still use the length of a king's foot to mark how high they are - no drug use meant. As a carpenter, I was taught in inches and fractions, way back then, and it is hard to convey the ease and joy of changing to the then new system of metric, it made everything easy, even making stairs, which was always a nightmare .... I mean working with metric was just like money, ten lots of ten cents made a dollar, ten lots of ten centimetres made a metre. (I work in millimetres so a thousand is a metre, but it is all so easy) I would need a METER to show exactly how easy working with a METRE was (he said, showing the different spellings of the two different words)
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Sigh.
This is SO wrong.
A kilometre (yes, that's how it is spelt) is a thousand metres, a mile is just over 1600 metres, hence, the above picture should show the right hand (modern) Mister Davis, as being 5/8ths the size of the left hand (with the defunct measurement).
I have a brother who lives in the United Kingdom still, he is in his 70s, and he seems unable to move into the new world of decimal measurement, still thinks he is 5 feets and eleven inchies.
Here in New Zealand, the first volcano report a few days ago had the smoke plume as 1400 FEET high, obviously the editor was an old crony, for we went metric in 1987. (maybe a pilot ? they still use the length of a king's foot to mark how high they are - no drug use meant.
As a carpenter, I was taught in inches and fractions, way back then, and it is hard to convey the ease and joy of changing to the then new system of metric, it made everything easy, even making stairs, which was always a nightmare .... I mean working with metric was just like money, ten lots of ten cents made a dollar, ten lots of ten centimetres made a metre.
(I work in millimetres so a thousand is a metre, but it is all so easy)
I would need a METER to show exactly how easy working with a METRE was (he said, showing the different spellings of the two different words)
I thought about you when I posted this, and KNEW you would have something to say. The Kilometer Davis looks about 5/8 as tall as Miles Davis to me.
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