Two weeks ago I was watching Hawaii 5.0. All the units were SI. John Altounji One size does not fit all. Social promotion ruined Education.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of c...@traditio.com Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 3:34 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53415] Re: Slow, Incremental Creep toward SI David-- I hadn't thought of it that way, but maybe you're onto something here, the silver lining in the cloud, so to speak. The gradual conversion to metric on television (and there are many other instances as well) may halp lessen resistance and get people metricated over a period of time without their really becoming aware of it and having to make a big issue about it. Whenever the metrication occurs naturally (e.g., in soft drinks and lighting) is just happens, without controversy. --Martin Morrison ============ On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, cont...@metricpioneer.com wrote: > My wife Michele and I recently watched a Nova episode: Asteroid: > Doomsday or Payday? and I noticed that instead of the usual Nova > rendering of most measures in non-SI units, many measures were only > SI, like meters and kilometers with no equivalents given in yards, > feet or miles. Of course I would have preferred the whole episode in > exclusively SI units, but some "experts" still used exclusively non-SI > measures. Some gave measures then parenthetically gave their equivalents. > > Today we watched Fareed Zakaria (GPS) interview Elon Musk of Space X > about many new innovations, including his Hyperloop. > I noticed that Figure 12 > https://raw.github.com/leonidkozhukh/hyperloop/master/images/figure%20 > 12.png uses exclusively SI measures. Have a look at the graphic. > > Even though I would like to see the United States complete metrication > at a faster pace, I think this slow, incremental creep seems to be how > many Americans are becoming accustomed to our inevitable slide toward > abandoning non-SI measures. > > David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
