A little late in the day, perhaps, but I concur totally with what Ma Be is saying
here!!
This issue is being taken far, far too seriously!! If anybody on this site doesn't
know kilopascal's style by now, they never will!!
Lighten up just a tad, eh??
Regards,
Steve.
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Review of Adler's book from Northwestern University, where I guess he's a
professor..
Nat
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These types of statements that may seem harmless to
some of us can be picked up by the anti-metric crowd and by the average man and
woman on the street who know nothing about the present definition of the meter
and how precise that standard is.
Prof. Ken Alder turned a
I got a letter published in the Deseret News, our state-wide paper. It has
a circulation of about 50,000, I think, which is much less than the Salt
Lake Tribune. I sent my letter by email to the Deseret News on Oct. 9 and
it was published on Sunday the 13th, but I missed it in the paper when it
Nat,
The 24h format is not so much a problem because of its extensive use in the
military in the 20th century. As most youngsters spent some time with the
military, they accepted it as a normal measuring system for time.
Now the military is using SI units more, so tomorrow's generation will
That was my point of posting Drudge. 24h is virutally everywhere you look
these days, just beneath the surface. An hour earlier I'd checked
Philadelphia flight information (www.phl.org) to see when a friend was
coming in, and the current time was 24 h. An hour later I stopped at the
supermarket,
Mike and friends:
Man has been stuck to use 24hx60mx60s clock because of its ease with which
to know 'position of zodiacs and stars' as they imbed into us through
astrologers and forecast experts (in a way to make their fair bread). This
ease has been because the number '60' is rationally
John and friends:
As it happen this precisely was the 'error in human mind that DISCARDED
earlier attempts to defind time into (2x10hx100mx100s) and link it with
'gradians' to use the present 'Metre'and link with 'second of the French
calendar'. For any system to be called *Metric its relation
Keep in mind that most newspapers blindly run stories directly from the
Associated Press wire. You should try sending some letters to them and
major national papers like USA Today and the New York Times to attract more
attention to the issue on a level that AP folks will notice.
Johnathan
Johnathan McClure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subject: [USMA:23107] Fw: Not for Mr Bennett's eyes
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 03:37:42 -0600
From: Johnathan McClure [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Road Train? That's a funny thing to call a semi-truck :P
Probably
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