FlyingMonkey Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 I guess that depends on whether the inclinometer is metric, SAE or degrees*! *Seriously, who came up with 360º in a circle? Live would be so much easier with 100º! What I have read is that 360 is approximately the number of days in a year, and if you are an ancient mathematician from Egypt or Greece tracking stars through the sky seasonally, it makes perfect sense to use a daily delineation to track a star/planet/whatever through the heavens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 AND - why SEVEN days in a week? The French did try to change it..... http://www.napoleon.org:81/en/essential_napoleon/calendar/index.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 AND - why SEVEN days in a week? The French did try to change it..... http://www.napoleon.org:81/en/essential_napoleon/calendar/index.asp I'm guessing that was set in the Bible for the Judeo-Christian world, and adopted since by the rest through conquest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cat Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 What with metric, inches, pounds or kilograms, confusion about the number of degrees in a circle, days in a week and the angle of dangle….no wonder the European LSA manufacturers have some delays!! Not to excuse them but…. Oops…didn't we have that topic? D'oh…sorry! P.S. Ian I think pints stuck for beer as it's definitely odd to order a gill, or even a peck…pint is better. In USA you have a long-neck or regular bottle, and it has to be ICE-cold. Oh no…now I've started the 'you English like warm beer huh?" argument! No, not warm…some beer like bitter is served at 'cellar-temperature' not 'warm'. Why is life so complicated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cat Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 AND - why SEVEN days in a week? The French did try to change it..... http://www.napoleon.org:81/en/essential_napoleon/calendar/index.asp Because you had to allow for..the weekend! D'uuh! Besides think of the number of Dynon revisions if they change it all! And…because there are 14 days in a fortnight. And if you cut the number of days (a metric week?) then there would be no fortnight, although there is't one in the USA because they don't know what it is. The French don't NEED a weekend because they take lunch from 12-till- 4 so they take the same time in smaller bits. Napoloeon got so annoying we had to defeat him and send him to a remote island to stop him complaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WmInce Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Moving right along . . . and what about AIRSPACE? Replacing Airport Traffic Areas, Control Zones, Continental Control Area, TSA's, etc. With Class A,B,C,D,E,F,G . . . . Z. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 I'm guessing that was set in the Bible for the Judeo-Christian world, and adopted since by the rest through conquest. It was common in the ancient middle east and the Romans used it. The actual origins are uncertain.Five would work better although I am guessing a two day weekend after three days of work might not go over with many employers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Worked well for us in the 1970s when the unions took over and we ended up with the "three day week" in many industries because of lack of electricity! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastEddieB Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Interesting that by their names, September, October, November and December should be the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth months respectively. Know how they got shifted ahead by two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cat Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Interesting that by their names, September, October, November and December should be the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth months respectively. Know how they got shifted ahead by two? I recalled just reading about this so I checked my file. It's aEurope thing. Um…is this going to be on the exam? :wacko: The original Roman year had 10 named months Martius "March", Aprilis "April", Maius "May", Junius "June", Quintilis "July", Sextilis "August", September "September", October "October",November "November", December "December", and probably two unnamed months in the dead of winter when not much happened in agriculture. The year began with Martius "March". Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome circa 700 BC, added the two months Januarius "January" and Februarius "February". He also moved the beginning of the year from Marius to Januarius and changed the number of days in several months to be odd, a lucky number. After Februarius there was occasionally an additional month of Intercalaris "intercalendar". This is the origin of the leap-year day being in February. In 46 BC, Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar (hence the Julian calendar) changing the number of days in many months and removing Intercalaris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastEddieB Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Thanks - I actually misremembered it a bit. I knew it was 10 months but thought Juilius Caesar and Caeser Augustus inserted July and August to commemorate themselves. I stand corrected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 TopCat - great to have a Latin lesson on here - you could have been a judge you know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 I think you guys need more work time and less free time maybe even more wife supervision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cat Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 I think you guys need more work time and less free time maybe even more wife supervision. Retirement…it's a beautiful thing Roger! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cat Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Thanks - I actually misremembered it a bit. I knew it was 10 months but thought Juilius Caesar and Caeser Augustus inserted July and August to commemorate themselves. I stand corrected! Eddie, I confess…I googled it! mea culpa! (Hey, that's Latin!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iwtsj Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Ian, That's kinda' the way it's been going down over the last 6 years. Another right winger nonsense comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Cesnalis Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Another right winger nonsense comment. On your very first post you are going to complain about right wing comments? You promised to keep doing this, no matter how many Id's it takes? Because you don't agree with conservative views doesn't mean we have to be 'called out' for being conservative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iwtsj Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 Yes, let's just censor anyone who is not a right-winger. Don't let anyone with another view point respond to your right wing rhetoric. Stop making right wing comments and I'll stop responding to them. Simple concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin2 Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 How about we get back on topic or at least keep cut out the political and non constructive criticism and comments. Possible Flight Plan changes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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