Re: [GZG] Weights and measures was: Hypothetical weapon question

On Tue, October 28, 2008 02:40, Indy wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>
wrote:
>
>> You know, I just realized there's one unit of
>> measure I've yet to see converted to metric.
>>
>> Grains. I haven't seen a lot of decigram
>> calibrated scales out there. But then I guess
>> that a lot of metric countries don't have people
>> loading their own ammunition.
>>

Heard of milligrams being used a lot, never decigrams.

> And while we're at it, when did we stop using the good ol' Kelvin
scale
> for
> temperature measurement?? Geez, all I ever hear about anymore are
> Farenheit and Celsius...

I might be missing the sarcasm, but Kelvin is used a lot in
physics and astronomy. Haven't heard of anyone mention
Farenheit for ages, except once recently when none of us
present could remember how to convert it to Celsius.

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