300MPH Video!

[speedster]

This is fast!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/120030/going_300mph/

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[BeeDee]

about 186 mph

[CactusJackSlade]

Yes... indeed. Europe use what they call "kilometers per hour"... a new and revolutionary way top measure speed.... and make it sound like it's going a lot faster than us Americans! :D

[d.noland]

When Ken G and myself started DSing, one of the first days out we were flying non carbon Blades, a friend brought up a radar gun and we were hauling but clicking off 150's and Ken even got a 172! We left the hill thinking "not bad for a bunch of new bees at the sport, we ROCK!" We got a phone call later that night, the gun was in Kilometers... hahahaaaa

[lenniegordo]

The rest of us are going a lot faster than Americans!

Kilometres, the revolutionary logical way to measure distance. Today a special offer only for Americans, buy a starter kit for Just 3 easy monthly payment of $39.99. and you get.



1 Kilometre
100 metres
1000 centimetres
1000000 millimetres


WOW what a bargain

It's time Americans pulled it head out of the sand and caught up with the rest of us!

Didn’t NASA crash a billon dollar spacecraft in to Mars because it got confused between feet and meters? LOL...

[sekollera]

It might get adopted faster if we Americans could only realize how nice it is for other things like equating a volume of water to mass:

A liter or water (at 4C) has a mass of 1 kg.

So say your windsurfer displaces 100 liters. It will then hold up 100 kg. Too simple.

BTW, JPL are not the only ones who screw up!
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/unit-mixups.html

And FYI, we have been officially metric since 1866.

[invictarocks]

Sounds like Black Magic to me...

:)

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