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From: "skywatchbob" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 2001-03-02 20:40
Subject: Re: NASA and Metric [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America]
NASA's web site is an interesting mix. Their space weather site is metric,
but a lot of mission sites are either
2001-03-03
Some Australian members of the UKMA list note that they use either x.xx m to
describe their height or xxx cm. And even kilograms. Pat, you have told us
people still use the ft/in for heights in Australia. Is this universal or
are there people who use SI to describe their vital
I found this message about Australia and the crazy answer of an American
following. I wonder where the Bible says that ifp was ordained by God.
I know that the Pyramidologists thought so too. They used passages about
weiging and measuring in the Bible where Jewisg units were mentioned by
name.
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From: "Anna Langley" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 2001-03-03 06:46
Subject: Re: [ukma] Imperial Ingrained into English Language
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:50:56 -, "Phil Durden" wrote:
Yes this probably is the case, but surely it would
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From: Stephen
Davis
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 2001-03-03 07:40
Subject: [ukma] Sunderland Echo
My sincere condolences to John Diamond's
family.
Anyone wanting to get the details of the 'Metric Martyr's'
court case can get them at:
2001-03-03
Han,
Go back to that site and post the following message:
Please folks, those of you who are not American, DON'T ever feel you have to
convert units for Americans. Let them learn our system. Each time you
convert, will only feed their arrogance. Let them figure out their nasty
Why wasn't the UK conversion to decimal currency in 1971 also considered
a European invasion of the British Isles? I say to my disgruntled
fellows in the Mother Country, bring back pounds, shillings, and pence
if you insist upon preserving the pint and the pound! Please be
consistent!
To hear
Prosecution of Metric Martyrs is
illegal'SUNDERLAND Council's prosecution of grocer Steven Thoburn
was illegal because the law on which it was based was illegal, the city's
magistrate court heard.
In his closing speech yesterday, barrister Michael
2001-03-03
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_200608.html?menu=
This is a message of mis-information. First of all, they don't have 10
years left. They have 8 years and 10 months. Second, what is this about
applying for another extension thereafter. I thought the changes to the law
in
I am a sweet innocent man who just wants to sell my
bananas in God ordained pounds and ounces. And if you won't let me, we'll
just have to duke it out. And, I'll sick my wife on you too!
G!
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As I recall, it was. And as an American invasion. Most definitely as
something non-British!
Jim
Paul Trusten wrote:
Why wasn't the UK conversion to decimal currency in 1971 also considered
a European invasion of the British Isles?
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Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to
To all,
We in Georgia, with our deregulated natural gas market for the last year or
so, are being subjected to incredible percentage increases in natural gas
prices.
The maddening thing is that everything is in cubit feet and then translated
into british thermal units "therms" Everyone here is
2001-03-03
Just because everyone is using it doesn't mean they know what it means, nor
do they know how to convert it to other units to compare gas and electric
costs. Whenever someone uses the therm, ask them to clarify it? Ask them
to tell you how many joules those therms are so you can
NASA Terminates Space Plane Project
Reuters
2001-03-02 08:15
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA has terminated its experimental X-33 space plane
project that had been envisioned as a lower-cost successor to the aging
space shuttle fleet for missions into orbit, space agency officials have
announced.
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