[pct-l] about potty trowles/ grams vs. ounces

[Paul Robison]

hillarious,

a measurement of how much light that much mass would be equal to is a great 
idea,

we can measure our baseweight in 'sun minutes'

"i feel i had the weight of 4 suns on my back"  "for a minute, you did"




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From: scott garner <wiley10 at hotmail.com>
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Thu, December 16, 2010 8:22:15 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] about potty trowles/ grams vs. ounces


I measure everything in End Lumens. I have my own personal conversion formula. 
Flip

> From: sean at lifesadventures.net
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:06:33 -0800
> Subject: [pct-l] about potty trowles/ grams vs. ounces
> 
> If I wanted to use grams/kg I'd move to Canada. But since I live in the US, 
>I'll stick to using oz and lbs. As an engineer I know how to use the metric 
>system and can do the conversion without much trouble. However, the issue is I 
>can't relate to metric in a personal way while I can with oz, lbs, ft, miles, 
>etc. I don't find the mental math of converting different units in the US sytem 
>burdensome since I've done it often and can do it with little to no thought. And 
>whats the point in converting to metric when everything in the US and most of 
>the population still uses the US system. I fail to see the advantage in forcing 
>one self to go against the tide. And if a person is going to advocate using kg 
>and grams, then they should be consistant and use meter/km instead of ft and 
>miles (which is an even more uphill batte in the US).
> 
> -Miner
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