[Magdalen] Rods, knots and chains, oh my!

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

sticks and stones may break her bones, but rods and chains excite her.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Still used nautically too. We used it in sailing.
>
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> > wrote:
>
> > On 30/07/2016 22:55, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> >
> >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)
> >>
> >
> > I'd forgotten about the knot which is a unit of speed still used in
> > aviation.  It is 1 nautical mile per hour, a nautical mile being the
> > distance represented by 1 minute (1/60 of a degree) of longitude at the
> > Equator, acrually defined now as 5,080 ft.  Using knots as a speed
> > indication for aircraft means that you are being neutral, using neither
> the
> > imperial nor the metric measure of speed.
> >
> > Roger
> >
>