Whoops, looks like the membership in the non-metric club is shrinking.
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Kilopascal kilopas...@cox.net wrote:
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Burma moves to adopt the kilogram as the basic unit for commodities trade.
http://www.mmtimes.com/2011/business/584/biz58401.html
Ditch the
I always wondered if aircraft mechanics across the world had a dual set of
tools to accommodate the US-made planes. I guess just as much as the feet
and miles were forced on the world, so were the USC fasteners. Too bad.
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Kilopascal kilopas...@cox.net wrote:
I thought Burma was a dictatorship, and assumed that the military junta
could just dictate what they wanted.
Carleton
From: Kilopascal [mailto:kilopas...@cox.net]
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 12:51
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: Ditch the viss, govt urges traders
Burma moves to
Going back to the original title of this thread, I have just watched a BBC
program on the last shuttle mission, presented by Kevin Wong, who, although
British, worked for very many years in Nasa as part of the shuttle team, and
was granted unprecedented access to areas and people denied to the
Even dictatorship has its limits.
It would be interesting to see if there is a way to help promote Burma's
conversion to metric with technical assistance and education (perhaps funneled
through the UN Industrial Development Organization) as well as providing funds
to help provide metric
Corrected version ... please reply to this one instead.
Ezra
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From: ezra steinberg ezra.steinb...@comcast.net
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Cc: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 8:46:05 PM
Subject:
I agree with John that helping the future space programs at NASA adopt metric
is a most laudable goal. This could be the silver lining in the current
retrenchment of NASA's space programs.
Ezra
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From: John Frewen-Lord j...@frewston.plus.com
To: U.S. Metric
