On 09 Dec 2012, at 13:51, Brent Watson wrote:
Nice shot, Patrick.
Thanks Brent. There sure are a lot of things out this way that are EPOD worthy.
Did you see the crater out there also?
Tell me more. I did not know about a crater. Where is it?
BTW, just exactly what did your altimeter read when you took that picture?
Actually seeing how the thread went I'm not going to comment. Well, ok, I will. :) I can't find it but I've seen a picture on the web of the instrument panel of a big foreign owned Boeing aircraft. Next to some of the instruments there are little printed tapes with arrows pointing at the readout and the tapes read "American units". Isn't it comforting to know while you're in the back and flying through storms the folks up front can not work in the units they are comfortable with and must use unfamiliar units instead? Sort of like the Canadian 767 who had their craft's fuel added by Americans. The Americans got confused over kilograms of fuel (as the crew requested) and ended up using pounds. Part way through the flight the airplane turned into a glider. Oh, and let's not forget the Mars Climate Orbiter. At any rate, I guess there are now three things we need to shy away from on Utah-Astronomy. 1: Climate change 2: Creationism 3) Units of measure