[USMA 1361] Sent this morning to the Washington Post

Hello, I wrote to the Washington Post around the 7th April 2020 regarding your changing the social distancing from 2 metres to 6 feet in an article on New Zealand (This now becomes Fake News). Now I see you've censored the article Over 1,000 queue for food in Geneva by changing 1 kilometer to m

[USMA 1363] Re: Sent this morning to the Washington Post

was > arrested for demonstrating without appropriate permission at Trafalgar Square > produced the BBC report as a defence. > > From: USMA [mailto:usma-boun...@lists.colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael > Payne > Sent: 10 May 2020 07:18 > To: USMA List Server > Subject: [USMA 1

[USMA 1379] Re: Sent this morning to the Washington Post

46929173&sdata=kqe1%2BLoAGmOHEtj9T%2BMtrw%2FjZqFaJECzErWWK8n44aI%3D&reserved=0> > > On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 1:18 AM Michael Payne <mailto:metricmik...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hello, > > I wrote to the Washington Post around the 7th April 2020 regarding your >

[USMA 1386] Re: Sent this morning to the Washington Post

stories to American readers. > I've cancelling my subscription which renews the 25 May. > > > > Al Lawrence > > > > > From: USMA on behalf of Ressel, Howard R > (DOT) > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 6:15 AM > To: Michael Payne ; USMA List Server

[USMA 1397] Re: Talking to people about metric

I have an electric car as well. The numbers you give show a consumption of just over 7 kW/100 km, this is very low compared to my Renault Zoe (the same platform as the Nissan Leaf) which averages about 12,5 to16 kW/100 km which give me a cost per 100 km of about €1,30. Also charging on the cheap

[USMA 1406] Re: Talking to people about metric

wind turbine gene > > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 6:14 PM Brian White <mailto:br...@bjwhite.net>> wrote: > I have ten cars, not one of them electric. :) > One 1.5 liter 4 cylinder > One 1.6 liter 4 cylinder > Two 2 liter 4 cylinders > One 2 liter 4 cylinder 16v turbo &

[USMA 1410] Ancestry survey

I recently received a survey from Ancestry.com

[USMA 1411] Re: Ancestry survey

&reserved=0> > is a world-wide organisation, it makes sense to give users the option of > either units. > > From: USMA [mailto:usma-boun...@lists.colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael > Payne > Sent: 20 May 2020 06:29 > To: USMA List Server > Subject: [USMA 1410

[USMA 1442] Interesting discussion

From the Renault Zoe owner’s club online. I thought it might interest people on this List. I liver in France and it does fine with kilometre speed limits. Any insights? Not on how to fix the problem in this car but on why the range or odometer does not change. Mike Payne Where is the miles vs.

[USMA 1450] Re: Utah educator: economy may open the door to U.S. metrication as vital infrastructure project

Not available in the EU because of the data protection regulations over here! I’ll have to read the article in Metric Today. Mike Payne > On 8 Jun 2020, at 23:17, Paul Trusten wrote: > >> >> Moving to metric would boost the American economy >> https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?

[USMA 1451] Re: Utah educator: economy may open the door to U.S. metrication as vital infrastructure project

he way we measure things is a good start. > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > Best wishes, > > Peter Goodyear, > > Melbourne, Australia > e-mail: p...@alphalink.com.au <mailto:p...@alphalink.com.au> > > >> On 9 Jun 202

[USMA 1452] State Higway metric rollback

Anyone have the history of how and why most State Highway departments rolled back their metric transition a number of years back? I seem to remember it was some Congressmen who inserted language into a budget somewhere that made the whole transition voluntary. And it all unravelled. Mike Payne

[USMA 1456] Re: State Higway metric rollback

> SI units > This was back in the Reagan era, and no changes have been made since. > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020, 11:45 PM Michael Payne <mailto:metricmik...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Anyone have the history of how and why most State Highway departments rolled > back their metric

[USMA 1461] Re: State Higway metric rollback

oll back ALL > metric work, there being no federal reimbursement money available to pay for > any of their metric activity. > > Mark Henschel > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 7:17 AM Michael Payne <mailto:metricmik...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I distinctly remember reading s

[USMA 1484] Re: hot time in Texas

It got up to 45° in France last summer, installed an air conditioner upstairs as it’s going to happen again. Because of the thickness and mass of the stone walls, the downstairs remains cool, I don’t think it got above 27° inside. Mike Payne France > On 10 Jul 2020, at 02:59, Paul Trusten wrot

[USMA 1497] More garbage

https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zmescience.com%2Fother%2Ffahrenheit-vs-celsius-did-the-u-s-get-it-right-after-all%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7Ca792ab155f6f48d3a91808d82d7c3902%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637309358840470950&sda

[USMA 1505] Re: More garbage

I like the way people in the US says Fahrenheit is more precise, then say it’s going to be in the 80’s today whereas in the rest of the world we say it’s going to be 30 today. I've noticed that in the US weather forecast on TV, the temperature around a city is all over the place (errors in place

[USMA 1521] sort out our ridiculously muddled measurements (in the UK)

https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2F8239048.stm&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7Ce3bb0933ce994d75d9ff08d85289ff90%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637350099936367181&sdata=y8%2FnuX1t0nmV6FmrXfoRLX6prFWF2FvG03zHoASNC8o%3D&

[USMA 1524] Re: sort out our ridiculously muddled measurements (in the UK)

; And UK road are STILL the safest in the UK. Lets leave it that way - as the > government and popular opinion suggests > > >> On 6 Sep 2020, at 6:26 pm, Michael Payne wrote: >> >> https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.

[USMA 1528] Re: sort out our ridiculously muddled measurements (in the UK)

gt; >> On 7 Sep 2020, at 2:35 pm, Michael Payne wrote: >> >>  >>> Sweden is safer and they drive on the other side. But I don’t think that >>> has much to with it. Many accidents here in France with people driving on >>> the wrong side of the road.

[USMA 1558] Re: For Sale in France

br...@bjwhite.net wrote: > > I would say that it was made in China and has nothing to do with the US other > than it's also maybe sold here in the US. > > Original Message > Subject: [USMA 1552] For Sale in France > From: Michael Payne mailto:metricm

[USMA 1638] Re: The SI and the new administration

Very sad to hear, Paul was a great spokesman for the USMA, I’ll certainly miss him. Mike Payne. > On 8 Dec 2020, at 22:38, John Altounji wrote: > > So Sad; may he rest in peace. > > > John Altounji > One size does not fit all. > Social promotion ruined Education. <> > Education is values f

[USMA 1641] Paul Trusten Obituary

https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealingstartshere.com%2Fobituaries%2FPaul-Trusten%2F%23!%2FObituary&data=04%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C2eb09a1c603a47d973bc08d8a573196b%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637441261061212718%7CUnknown%7CTWFpb

[USMA 1667] Re: SuperZilla TV Ad Uses Metric

I see they sell it 300 ML (mega litre) cans. https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAerosol-Superzilla-Green-Wonder-Product%2Fdp%2FB00FSEH9M0&data=04%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C3fddf41a70724511f63108d8ba44a8e3%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%

[USMA 1713] Federated States of Micronesia

ard units of measure and observation gives the impression there are none. Feel free to include in the next Metric Today. Michael Payne ___ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma

[USMA 1717] Re: Federated States of Micronesia

> -Original Message- > From: USMA <mailto:usma-boun...@lists.colostate.edu>> On Behalf Of Michael Payne > Sent: 29 April 2021 08:33 > To: USMA List Server <mailto:usma@lists.colostate.edu>> > Subject: [USMA 1713] Federated States of Micronesia > > After

[USMA 1721] Associated Press

After retiring to France 7 years ago I subscribed to the Washington Post for a few years, then the New York times for a year and have been trying to find a decent English language newspaper that does not censor out metric units, particularly annoying when it’s a scientific article where the orig

[USMA 1728] Metric munitions

I read the following article which by soldiers is called a 40 mike mike. Hmm. Wondered if this was millimetres and sure enough further down it was a 40 mm grenade. I’ve never head of anyone calling this dimension mike mike before. https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2

[USMA 1794] Igor Vovkovinskiy

Reading the news on apnews.com about this very tall gentleman who has unfortunately died. While I appreciate the inclusion of SI, whoever wrote this has no idea centimetres and metres are the same unit. And 8.33 inches is probably a conversion. He definitely was a very tall dude! "Vovkovinskiy

[USMA 1798] Re: News stories on the suggestion that Imperial measures be re-introduced to the UK

Even the “factual” sources have facts that are incorrect. I’m appalled by some of the journalism on this subject. The various units used by the British (and everyone else) didn’t have different meanings, they had different values. A pound was not a pound the world around. A mile distance was di

[USMA 1806] km/h

I believe I have managed to change the editorial policy of an English language newspaper in France, they originally used kph for kilometres per hour. I have complained in numerous letters with links, telling them the SI has symbols and not abbreviations and what they were saying was thousands pe

[USMA 1819] Weird website

Now here is a weird website, it’s a French website but if you choose English everything is Feet and pounds. https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deleks.fr%2Fen%2Fc%2F2%2Frotavators-for-tractors-agricultural-tillers-stone-burier-with-roller-and-rotavator-for-mixing-

[USMA 1821] Changing the size of things to suit the unit used

Here are three examples of the same place with different areas of the supposedly same mosaic in an 8th century Palace near Jericho. The picture from AP news shows 827 m2, conveniently close to 8900 ft2. The second is in the text below the picture where it becomes 930 m2 (1 ft2). You have t

[USMA 1825] Re: Fahrenheit

Which publication are we talking about here? Or have I not recieved the previous correspondence? Mike Payne > On 8 Nov 2021, at 01:09, Hillger,Donald wrote: > > Thanks Stan for responding. > > I urge everyone who sees this to reply and support a more-logical Celsius > scale. This is one of

[USMA 1837] Re: A small favor to ask...

I see part of their website does list dimensions in millimetre. https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frighteousguitars.com%2Fpages%2Fplek-repair-shop-copy&data=04%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7Ccd30deaee2e84fcd621408d9b4e837d2%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C

[USMA 1851] Cancelling Washington Post

** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** I thought cancelling this subscription might have the desired effect as I live in France. Think how many more subscriptions they could sell ! Mike Payne France Begin forwarded message: Forwarded Message Subject:Response to Ticket #[2138

[USMA 1853] Re: Cancelling Washington Post

e you afraid of? On Jan 8, 2022, at 11:55 AM, Michael Payne mailto:metricmik...@gmail.com>> wrote: ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** I thought cancelling this subscription might have the desired effect as I live in France. Think how many more subscriptions they could sell ! Mike Payne Fr

[USMA 1856] Imperial v Metric

** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** You might have seen this before, but it’s still good. https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dhid7EJkwDNk&data=04%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C89ade479b2404242f55c08d9dbfadbef%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff

[USMA 1885] Scientific in feet?

** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** Here is a wish mash of units, https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uu.edu%2Fdept%2Fphysics%2Fscienceguys%2F2003Apr.cfm&data=05%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C23820e8445e54f2de95e08da3d866394%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C

[USMA 1913] See thru Jet engine

** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMgL0GW248mE&data=05%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7Ca2b74f90c1914bfcfc6d08da66ef5ed6%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637935475526184232%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbG

[USMA 1929] USW of metric in USA

** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** Please add other examples of who uses metric in their work in the USA to add to my list which I’ll send to various news organizations like PBS. Do Americans "largely use units like inches, yards, pounds and gallons?”. Certainly, but it’s the media that demotes or

[USMA 1935] NPR Style guide

** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** The message I just sent to NPR via their website. metric system Always convert metric figures. Add within square brackets if part of a quote. Do Americans "largely use units like inches, yards, pounds and gallons”. Certainly, but it’s the media that demotes or re

[USMA 1937] Wikipedia problem

** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** Have a look at this article https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLondon_Beer_Flood&data=05%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C523d8e7ea6ba4f38daeb08dac3b7c032%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C638037

[USMA 1939] Re: Wikipedia problem

giving all the figures used. Martin From: USMA mailto:usma-boun...@lists.colostate.edu>> On Behalf Of Michael Payne Sent: 11 November 2022 07:39 To: USMA List Server mailto:usma@lists.colostate.edu>> Subject: [USMA 1937] Wikipedia problem ** Caution: EXTERNA

[USMA 1947] Re: A YouGov America poll shows only 25% support for the metric system

** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** It’s an interesting survey, one thing I notice is that although only 25% would like to go metric another 27% are not sure. If the 27% tried it for a year I’m damn sure they like it. That would make 52%, Mike Payne On 7 Mar 2023, at 23:01, Nodextrose Org mailto:n

[USMA 1955] Confusion on Units

** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** For your newsletter. My sister lives in Australia and visited me recently, she related a visit she'd made to the UK in the year 2000. She was in Edinburgh Scotland and had to drive to Bristol to visit someone. She rented a car and headed off, having been told it

[USMA 1963] Re: Confusion on Units

ck instead of read. But all of that has been shelved for now. From: USMA mailto:usma-boun...@lists.colostate.edu>> On Behalf Of John Steele Sent: Wednesday, 19 July, 2023 10:17 To: USMA List Server mailto:usma@lists.colostate.edu>>; Michael Payne mailto:metricmik...@gmail.com>

[USMA 1966] Chinese European website

units when I need something, I'll not convert, I'll purchase elsewhere. Michael Payne On 29/08/2023 11:14, Tesery Support wrote: Hello I'm sorry for the trouble you caused. The link you provided: Front Windscreen Sunshade Size: 11.8*12.6*1.2 inches approximately equal to 29.97

[USMA 1980] Re: Android Operating System Goes Metric

** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** You can do that already with Apple products, Mike Payne > On 4 Oct 2023, at 20:57, c...@traditio.com wrote: > > ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** > > The Android Operating System, used by virtually all cell phones (Samsung, > etc.) except the iPhone by Apple, has anno

[USMA 1983] Useful stuff you should all know,

** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** Water has a density of 1 and 1 litre water has a mass of 1 kg, 1000 L = 1 m3, mass 1 tonne, You can google the density of anything, Gold has a density of 19,3 g/cm3 or 19,3 kg per litre (10x10x10 cm), I visited a gold mine and they told me that the ingot they jus

[USMA 328] Revisiting America

Just listened to a BBC segment on NPR at 02:30 EDT. The story, revisiting America 8 years after Obama took office. It starts with the voice of a Satnav system saying “in one kilometre take the exit” and proceeds to a story on the above. I find it interesting that the BBC, from a country that us

[USMA 336] Re: Revisiting America

quot;in 1 kilometer take >> exit". >> >> Both my old and new GPSs thus indicate the speed limit (part of the >> installed map) and actual current speed in kilometers per hour here in >> the US. The new one even causes the actual speed indicator sub-panel to >&g

[USMA 346] Nuclear Power

I toured a Nuclear power plant in France Saturday. Very impressive. From the literature I got, EDF have an Installed power of 89,9 GW and produce 473,8 TWh. 98% of electricity production is from non fossil fuel sources, 87,8% Nuclear, 9,9 Water, wind and solar with the other 2,3% fossil fuel. Q

[USMA 394] Re: SI symbolism

Over here in France I often see the incorrect symbol used in the market, and the odd sign outside a business. A very high percentage of the population don’t know that in SI it’s a symbol not an abbreviation. I wrote to the BBC style guide recently with suggestions and references on their insis

[USMA 395] Re: More Metric Gains in Media

Conversion is not helped by the news media converting metric to what they perceive the audience wants. I’ve noticed here in France how many Brits use yards and stones for body mass. Only to find out recently the BBC style guide recommends everything be given this way. When you cannot get away fr

[USMA 398] How many bottles of wine from a Hectare

One error I notice in the article in Metric today is that 1 hectare is not 100 square metres but 10 000 m2, in other words 100 x 100 metres. Mike Payne ___ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/

[USMA 491] Re: Teach them Young Re: Re: "The Non-Metric System Is Killing Americans!"

I definitely think the decline in US manufacturing and the export of same is due in no small part to lack of metric units. Germany still has a vibrant manufacturing base despite high wages, they export high price, high quality metric equipment. Even one little bit of non metric in an otherwise

[USMA 493] Re: Teach them Young Re: Re: "The Non-Metric System Is Killing Americans!"

Somewhat behind the times in fact! Michael Payne > On 06 Mar 2017, at 20:44, Travis Kelm wrote: > > In my engineering school, inches/ U.S.C. are still commonly used. That is > likely the problem. In fact we still use inch calipers, which is > > very difficult and error p

[USMA 507] Re: Hoist

No it’s a store called Comagri. http://www.comai.fr > On 17 Apr 2017, at 16:13, Brian White wrote: > > Looks like Harbor Freight. > >> On Apr 17, 2017, at 06:49, Michael Payne wrote: >> >> Saw this for sale in a farming hardware store in France, made in the U

[USMA 510] Re: Height and mass

Interesting. Over here in France I’ve noticed that many people will express things as 1m20 instead of 1,20 m. They don’t seem to relate so easily to something like 1200 mm unless it’s something smaller than a metre. Obviously some ancient habit because they also say (as they do in the US) 1€20.

[USMA 565] Re: Unusual metric area

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hectare#Are Mike Payne > On 24 May 2017, at 05:55, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 12:13:07 PM EDT James wrote: >> In the Middle East a unit of land area called the dunam, originating >> from the Ottoman Turkish. In Israel and several other cou

[USMA 579] Re: Hydrogen fuel cell cars in California

This station website below when you click on a station list the pressure as 35 and 70 Mpa. Mike Payne > On 07 Jun 2017, at 05:18, Scott Hudnall wrote: > > I guess they are really starting to roll out the refueling infrastructure > across the state. > > http://cafcp.org/stationmap

[USMA 638] Rain gauge calibration

Hi, I bought a new rain gauge and the amount registered was a few millimetres less than the old one for the same rain. Decided to figure out how many mL to put in to get 1 mm of rain. Came up with the following spreadsheet (attached excel). I measured the diameter of the opening to calculate

[USMA 641] Re: Rain gauge calibration

error than if I poured it in slowly. So, if that is the type of system > you use, I advocate pouring slowly, perhaps at a rate not to exceed the > equivalent rate of 25 mm/h. A tenth of that rate would be even better. > > Jim > > On 2017-07-20 02:49, Michael Payne wrote: >&g

[USMA 746] Re: Not SI, but...

I personally have used the comma as the decimal separator for at least 30 years, no one seem to have a problem with it. I have also used a space as the thousand separator for the same period of time. Excel does a good job of displaying number with the “thousand separator” checked. As for missin

[USMA 763] kilopascals

Interesting video about the comet airplane with pressure at various altitudes in kPa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Cg2ZeYa5E Mike Payne___ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu https://lists.colos

[USMA 818] Re: Liberia announces metric conversion – How can we get this information out to our Congressmen and Senators?

Manufacturing in SI will get you more exports and reduce the trade deficit. Someone should tell Trump. Mike Payne > On 02 Jun 2018, at 03:04, Peter Goodyear wrote: > > Hi, everyone, > > Mark Henschel asked: How can we get this information out to our Congressmen > and Senators? That is the ea

[USMA 872] Pounds in Germany

In a newspaper article some german workers found a bottle from 1930 in a cathedral roof with a message.https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/buntes-kurioses/id_84390322/goslar-enkel-des-schreibers-findet-88-jahre-alte-flaschenpost.html

[USMA 935] Re: “Measure,” new app is part of iOs 12.0.1

Apple seems to defer to centimetres for measurement much to my annoyance. In their Pages and Numbers apps, the option of millimetres is not there, also they display rainfall in centimetres when the app is selected to metric. Mike Payne France > On 22 Oct 2018, at 09:06, Paul Trusten wrote: >

[USMA 979] National Weather Service centimeters rain

From the Washington Post 7 Jan 19 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-news-in-brief-winter-storm-creates-hazards-in-california/2019/01/06/768cb20a-11f8-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html?utm_term=.4dfce93769b1

[USMA 980] Weather.com

There is a feedback page for the Weather Channel at feedback.weather.com/customer/en/portal/topics/ but it just takes you to lots of answers that don’t address the subject. I finally went to their site on Facebook and asked the question.

[USMA 982] Re: National Weather Service centimeters rain

r as rain when it melts. Of course, sublimation causes some loss > there. > > BTW, I think you have an error in your last sentence, Mike. > > Jim > > On 1/7/2019 07:02, Michael Payne wrote: >> From the Washington Post 7 Jan 19 >> https://www.washingtonpost.com/nat

[USMA 984] Re: National Weather Service centimeters rain

, well outside the USA. Mike > On 07 Jan 2019, at 15:41, James R. Frysinger wrote: > > That makes it seem to me that this is an Apple problem, not a Weather Channel > problem. > > Jim > > On 1/7/2019 08:33, Michael Payne wrote: >> Thanks, so I see, it should

[USMA 986] Re: National Weather Service centimeters rain

Very True. > On 07 Jan 2019, at 16:05, James R. Frysinger wrote: > > Well, centimeters are better than inches, at least! > > Jim > > On 1/7/2019 08:46, Michael Payne wrote: >> I have sent Feedback to Apple a few years back, nothing changed. But I’ve >> since

[USMA 994] Re: National Weather Service centimeters rain

k. Its sister-station https://www.woweather.com/ > uses US Customary units. > > Martin > -Original Message- > From: USMA [mailto:usma-boun...@lists.colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael > Payne > Sent: 07 January 2019 14:46 > To: USMA List Server > Subject: [U

[USMA 997] Re: National Weather Service centimeters rain

te >> pressures, to correctly place the space on the unit symbols for >> temperatures, and so forth. I have heard that Don Hillger later consulted >> with them and today their metric coverage is superb. >> I do see, however, that their symbol for temperatures has once again

[USMA 1067] Baggage, kg v lb.

I checked in with United at Dulles the other day after weighing my bags at home, 17, 23 and 27 kg each. The baggage limit I have is 32 kg per bag. The woman behind the desk wanted to know if any were over 50 lbs. My reply was non of them are over 32 kg! It turned out the one over 23 kg needed a

[USMA 1151] Came across this.

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/five-massive-screw-ups-that-wouldnt-have-happened-if-we-1828746184 If we’d have used the screw-ups would not have happened. Mike Payne___

[USMA 1177] Re: Thermostat in hotel

Last rental car I had in the USA I changed the odometer readout to kilometres and the time to 24 hour clock and the temperature to Celsius. I’m sure the next renter was confused. It took a bit of reading in the manual to find out how to do it. Mike Payne > On 5 Aug 2019, at 18:59, Ressel, Howa

[USMA 1194] Verge Science

https://www.facebook.com/1048091338583119/posts/2386800631378843?sfns=mo You can view this without logging on to Facebook, but you’ll have to log on to make a comment. Mike Payne__

[USMA 1196] Re: A Quora posting

Very well reasoned reply Jim. Mike Payne > On 23 Sep 2019, at 20:03, James R. Frysinger wrote: > > This is a question that was posted on Quora with my reply below it. I might > have omitted an item or two that would be pertinent to the list but I think I > got my point across. Quora is an onl

[USMA 1204] Re: Metric foot care?

I remember many years ago renewing International Flight Crew ID, I believe it was Universal Aviation https://www.universalaviation.aero/ But I clearly wrote down in the height and weight box 173 cm 67 kg. I came back that my Height was 67 inches and my weight 173 pounds. I had to call them and

[USMA 1305] Vacuums and kPa.

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[USMA 1342] Re: Complicated vs simple measurement methodologies

Apparently the Food Marketing Institute is now the Food Industry Association. https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFood_Marketing_Institute&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C7efbde67d54d4a5c23da08d7d1883c7e%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367f

[USMA 1345] Wikipedia editing.

I’ve found many editors on Wikipedia are luddites when it comes to units of measure. I recently edited an article on Aggie Kukulowicz because his height was only in feet and inches. Another editor changed it to read feet and inches first, stating it was preferred that way by English speaking Can

[USMA 1351] Re: Wikipedia editing.

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[USMA 1355] Fractions and decimals in one unit.

Looking at Wikipedia today, list of Fastest production cars by acceleration: https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FList_of_fastest_production_cars_by_acceleration&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7Ce8b35be75d0544c821f608d7e2e66bf2%7Caf