More that half the year, temperatures in our area are either a single-digit
or teens number. Of course the Fahrenheit folks insist on their "30s",
"40s", "50s, and "60s" etc.
Big numbers.
Nat
Dear Joe,
People are, and have always been comfortable with mountain heights - up to
29,012 feet,
kilopascal wrote:
2001-03-04
I don't know what all the fuss is about. So what if packages show only
millilitres or grams .
Yes, but why should they?
It is so easy to convert to centilitres, or decilitres in ones mind, without
the aid of a calculator.
Yes, but why should we have to?
Pat Naughtin wrote in 11455
Dear Joe,
People are, and have always been comfortable with mountain heights - up to
29,012 feet, flight details that includes heights such as 35,000 feet, and
ocean depths such as 20,000 Leagues.
To say that they are now uncomfortable with large numbers (because
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 00:15:12 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since the only vehicle that can be correctly called a "trolley" is a type
that actually has one (streetcar/light rail vehicle) or two (electric trolley
bus), the power would naturally be electricity, and therefore easy to measure
in
Gustaf Sjberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-03-02 08:36:07
The text below comes from bwmaonline.com.
They have some interesting opininons about metric quantities and their
disadvatages, and I have to say that I partly agree with them.
This is an addition to the old deci - centi - discussion. It is
Provided that you are appealing to the TNG, DS9, (i.e. The Next Generation, Deep Space
9)and Voyager fans.
The original Star Trek series still used nonsensical units such as "inches of Mercury"
and "foot-candles".
greg
"kilopascal" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-03-03 11:00:33
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I get the Independent Daily News Update via internet. I don't recall that
they have ever referred to the Thoburn debacle. This is good, in my
opinion.
Norm Werling
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From: "IndyNews" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2001March05 03:02
Subject: Independent
Chris Keenan wrote:
The term 'supermarket trolley' is the one used in the UK (motorised or
not!)
In most cases, English-speaking people outside the U.S. and Canada use
"trolley" where Americans and Canadians use "cart" -- luggage trolley, meal
trolley, dessert trolley, drinks trolley (Am.
Gregory Peterson wrote in 11465:
He may have a point, given that there are still Imperial/US standards
being used for package sizing. 341 ml bottles of beer, 398 ml cans of
cola, 454 g bags of bread, etc. What is required in the UK, US and Canada
is a series of standard metric sizes.
I have
Let us all wish Tom Price, the Nebraska teacher, the best with his efforts.
Norm
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From: "Price Tom" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "'Norman Werling'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2001March05 13:43
Subject: RE: Metric, once and for all!
Thanks for the email!!
I'll be giving it
I sent this on the evening of the Seattle quake, Wednesday, February 28.
Unfortunately I sent it to the Atlanta affiliate because the NPR web site
referred me to the local affiliate. Perhaps I didn't try hard enough to
search for the NPR email address.
I don't know if subsequent news reports
In a message dated 2001-03-05 13:40:42 Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The term 'supermarket trolley' is the one used in the UK (motorised or
not!)
Chris
Technically over here 'trolley' actually referred to the current collector
pulled along the wire. Comes from the same
An article in the online LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/front/20010302/t18483.html
gives most of the measurements relating to the Seattle earthquake in
metric units, with conversions to inches provided afterwards. It's not a
total job, but it's better than the Charleston Post and
If Tom is reading this, he needs to know that none of his existing links is
clickable. You have to copy and paste them into your browser's address
field. People won't generally use such links.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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