From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Sat Dec 18 2004 - 11:55:03 PST
What about the existing carpenters's standard, the "RCH"?
apb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Boge" <ken@clovermachine.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] The future: In armour/camo
> I'm glad to see the US Army is now adopting the new measurement standard
for
> the US, the "strand of hair".
> Since America's failure to adopt the metric system some 25 or so years
ago,
> there has been a push (mainly by journalists) to come up with a simple
> system of measurement that is easy for everyone to understand and relate
to.
> Hence, the hair unit. According to the NIST (National Institute of
> Standards and Technology), the keeper of the standards, 205.338809 hairs =
1
> inch. For you former metric types that translates to 8084.20508 hairs to
> the meter.
> No need to thank me for this bit of free education. Class dismissed.
>
> Ken
>
>
> > That's about 50,000
> > times smaller than the diameter of a strand of hair.
> > Soldiers wearing the suit would have the ability to
> > blend into any environment, like a chameleon..."
>
>
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