What a pity that they didn't take the opportunity to equate that 100 kg of water to a 100 L. Or 50 2-L pop bottles if they must compare it with something familiar.
And 20 m is quite a bit less than 80 feet. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cole Kingsbury To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:45 AM Subject: [USMA:46172] RE: Moon water LiveScience has an article that gives predominately metric units. Fair-use excerpt: "Based on the measurements, the team estimated about 100 kilograms of water in the view of their instruments — the equivalent of about a dozen 2-gallon buckets — in the area of the impact crater (about 80 feet, or 20 meters across) and the ejecta blanket (about 60 to 80 meters across), Colaprete said. I'm pretty impressed by the amount of water we saw in our little 20-meter crater, Colaprete said. " Source: http://is.gd/4W3M6 I wish that the news media would at least gradually up their metric usage. I have personally converted myself to metric -- even though I get strange looks from family and friends when discussing things in metric. Prosper! -----Thanks!----- Cole Kingsbury -------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carleton MacDonald" <carlet...@comcast.net> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:05:32 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:46171] RE: Moon water Yup, the Washington Post dumbed it down too. Carleton From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Harry Wyeth Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 22:51 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:46170] Moon water I suppose I am not the only one who noticed the press articles re the amount of water found on the moon as "26 gallons". Obviously, the NASA guys calculated 100 L. HARRY WYETH
