Ideally, wind speed should be in m/s. It's pure SI and, moreover, it's
easier to visualize.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Michael G. Koerner
> Sent: December 22, 2000 22:00
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:9995] Re: 3 hours metric promotion, Thursday, Dec. 28!
>
>
> I don't know if I willl be able to tune in via streaming web feed,
> although I will certainly give it a try!
>
> As an added bonus, I would make it a point to read the weather reports
> and forcasts during the show using 'metric' units *ONLY* (ie, Celsius
> temperatures, km/h wind and storm movement speeds, hPa air pressure and
> mm or cm precipitation amounts).
>
> :-)
>
> Andy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Subject: [USMA:9980] 3 hours metric promotion, Thursday, Dec. 28!
> > Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:41:17 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Andy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Dear Metrication Proponents:
> > Please join me on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2000, at from 9
> > a.m. until noon, east coast time, in a discussion and
> > promotion of metrication on my radio call-in talk
> > show. I host what I consider to be the best, most
> > timely, most constructive, most heated, most fun, most
> > prescient, and most efficacious political and public
> > policy radio call-in talk show in North Florida each
> > weekday from 9 until noon. This Thursday we will
> > devote the entire to program to boosting metrication,
> > with your help.
> >
> > The program each day is available on AM1320 WJGR in
> > Jacksonville and now also on the net at
> > http://www.wjgr.com if you just follow the directions.
> >
> > I invite the folks on this message board to join in a
> > free-ranging, fun, and not necessarily well-organized
> > discussion of why the U.S. ought to go metric.
> >
> > Please invite your friends. Please be so kind as to
> > forward a copy of this email to anyone who might be
> > interested.
> >
> > You may wish to participate through tuning in over the
> > internet. You might want to do a bit more. Perhaps you
> > would like to call in. I would like that very much.
> > You can call at 904-389-1320 during the show at your
> > own expense; tell my sidekick you are calling long
> > distance so he can jump you ahead of local calls. Or,
> > alternatively, you can email me prior to Wednesday at
> > midnight with your name and phone, if you like, and I
> > will place calls to as many metrication proponents as
> > possible at our expense.
> >
> > You might wish to tune in to the show and
> > simultaneously discuss the show here in this board or
> > perhaps at the delphi board or at the small yahoo club
> > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricAmerica as we use
> > this radio program, Thursday, for a much value as we
> > can get out of it.
> >
> > I am not a station employee. I broker the program. I
> > buy my time and I take the risk of reselling
> > advertising, sometimes making a profit for the week,
> > sometimes not. I am a former member of the Florida
> > House. The program usually involves a wide-ranging mix
> > of local, state, and national issues. Sometimes I
> > require callers to stay on topic, sometimes not. On
> > Thursday I will for the most part hold the callers to
> > the topic of metrication except for some brief
> > interruptions.
> >
> > I believe strongly that the U.S. ought to move now to
> > join the rest of the world, that any more delay in
> > metrication is foolish, and that in many aspects of
> > metrication, it would be easier to just make the
> > switch than to torture ourselves with more years of
> > half-metric, half-not.
> >
> > I have worked for many years to promote metrication. I
> > am frustrated. I am angry. I want to get on with it.
> >
> > I believe that we ought to look for every possible
> > opportunity to tie metrication to the turn of the
> > millennium. Sure, the millennium is mainly a fiment of
> > our imagination, but many folks want to associate the
> > turn of the millennium with some important event. The
> > important event is here. The year 2001 ought to be the
> > year in which the entire world, including the U.S.,
> > finally decides, once and for all, that we are all
> > going to be metric.
> >
> > Please forward this to others.
> > Please join me on Thursday.
> >
> > I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous
> > 2001! And I wish for you a metric 2001!
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Andy Johnson
> > Jacksonville, Florida
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricAmerica
> > http://www.wjgr.com
>
> a
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> __________________________________________________________________
> __________
> Regards,
>
> Michael G. Koerner
> Appleton, WI
> __________________________________________________________________
> __________
>
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