From: Paul Trusten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sex sells, so perhaps we can make SI into something so erotic that no
American can ignore it. But, along those lines, we ought to use humans
instead of elephants.Pardon my political incorrectness, but who should be
SI's first pin-up girl?
Who says that a
Oops! Wrong link. I meant to include this one:
http://www.duncanislandranch.com/paridaa.htm
From: Paul Trusten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sex sells, so perhaps we can make SI into something so erotic that no
American can ignore it. But, along those lines, we ought to use humans
instead of
Sorry to hear that the rail gauge story I posted is an old one that many of
you have seen (even on this list) before. I guess I missed it the last time.
I realize that it is not uncommon for some stories to circulate around on
the internet and come back again and again to the same recipients.
Do car speedometers in Ireland have dual MPH and km/h
markings, as they do in the US? ...
All cars are fitted with dual MPH and km/h speedometers, but the outer
km/h readings are smaller, and are not really readable, which is why I've
replaced them with km/h only displays on my last two cars
Indeed, a wise old man, who knew that inspiration was the first step in
the process. Joe, did he start using Miss Metric when she was born? That
is an ingenious stroke, because it focuses the public on a cause, i.e.,
the young woman's progress in life. Or, did Miss Metric New Zealand
arrive in
Yes, but do you consider that a fixation of a standard of measurement
for the United States? BTW, I thought that was in 1875, just after the
US signed the Treaty Of the Metre.
Joseph B. Reid wrote:
Paul Trusten wrote in USMA 14548:
The United States has no SI measurement standard,
much
OK,OK,OK
I suppose I am subjectively unwilling to admit that my Congress ever
passed a fixation of the standard of weights and measures as is their
right in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, but after reading Jim
Frysinger's excellent Metric Background web page, which I strongly
Jim Frysinger noted on his metric background page,
...Thus they became the de facto units of commonly
used measures and rapid adoption by the states in their laws and
regulations made them effectively the de jure standards
When the US Metric Board voted in 1979 to support the change of
Inches and pounds are indeed legally defined by the prototype kilogram, as
described by this article here:
English units of weight (ounces, pounds, and tons) are now also derived from
the metric standard of mass, which is the international prototype kilogram.
This is a solid cylinder of
Indeed, a wise old man, who knew that inspiration was the first step in
the process. Joe, did he start using Miss Metric when she was born? That
is an ingenious stroke, because it focuses the public on a cause, i.e.,
the young woman's progress in life. Or, did Miss Metric New Zealand
arrive in
Yes, but do you consider that a fixation of a standard of measurement
for the United States? BTW, I thought that was in 1875, just after the
US signed the Treaty Of the Metre.
Joseph B. Reid wrote:
Paul Trusten wrote in USMA 14548:
The United States has no SI measurement standard,
much
Another web-site related exchange. BTW, what happened to the NIST Metric
Program Office site, which used to be at http://www.nist.gov/metric ?
Bruce
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Bruce Raup
National Snow and Ice Data Center Phone: 303-492-8814
University of Colorado, 449 UCB
Strange, Bruce. I called up there on other business and had hoped to ask
this question, too, but Jim McCracken is out of the office today.
Perhaps they've had to turn it off due to hackers, equipment
reconfiguration, or some other reason. OTOH, that fire in the tunnel in
Baltimore wiped out a
Joseph B. Reid wrote:
Yes, but do you consider that a fixation of a standard of measurement
for the United States? BTW, I thought that was in 1875, just after the
US signed the Treaty Of the Metre.
Joseph B. Reid wrote:
Paul Trusten wrote in USMA 14548:
The United States has no
Try http://physics.nist.gov.
Most of their stuff moved to the physics zone some weeks ago. I updated
all the links from SI Navigator at that time.
Their reference material on Constants, Units and Uncertainty is now at
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/index.html.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
Looks like NIST's server is down.
BaAron Carter
-Original Message-
From: Bruce Raup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 23 July, 2001 14:43
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:14565] metric usage at www.whyfiles.org
Another web-site related exchange. BTW, what happened
Apparently, more people need to write these people (without reference to
me, of course!).
Bruce
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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:02:25 -0500
From: David Tenenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bruce Raup [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Talk to the
Yes, much of the information that used to reside on the Metric Program
Office site has now migrated to the Physics site, as Bill describes
below. Nonetheless, the Metric Program Office site
http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/200/202/mpo_home.htm
returns a 404 error, even when attempts are made to
Baron Carter wrote:
Looks like NIST's server is down.
It's NOT down (as I said in USMA 14568). It's now at
http://physics.nist.gov. Has been for weeks.
If my memory serves me correctly, Jim McCracken did post a message telling
us about the restructuring.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
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