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by jiri
Tue Sep 25, 2012 2:50 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: Unappropriate velocity unit - km/h
Replies: 13
Views: 5398

Re: Inappropriate topc headings

I think people making complaints should use appropriate verbiage. I'm not even sure unappropriate is even a word, although unappropriated is. Thank you for improving my English, perhaps better would be "unsuitable" . I am sorry that my suggestion could be understood as a complaint - that ...
by jiri
Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:48 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: Unappropriate velocity unit - km/h
Replies: 13
Views: 5398

Re: Unappropriate velocity unit - km/h

You are right, JohnD. I wrote the suggestion because I have been teaching >7000 US students in Europe over 40 years and know that what you call "a mental handle". Yes, objects outside Earth may be fast and more people should better understand them. I am new in SA (Star Asterisk): how to le...
by jiri
Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:19 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: Unappropriate velocity unit - km/h
Replies: 13
Views: 5398

Unappropriate velocity unit - km/h

Velocity unit of km/h is suitable for passengers, cars and planes. In astronomy, instead, the SI unit (k)m/s should be standard. In the picture text, values of >500000 km/h are used - crazy numbers, too many zeroes. Should the many zeroes impress the innocent laymen? I guess, they are confusing inst...