Last night, my wife and I watched part of Discovery Channel's show on
the Mammoth "exhumation" in Siberia. We saw the same thing. Tusks got
measured in meters and centimeters, and so forth. Yet the narrator's
script included not one SI unit with the possible exception of the
second.
My wife asked about that and I told her that it seemed to me as if
Discovery had an explicit and striclty adhered to policy of avoiding
metric units. My comments to Discovery Channel in the past were brushed
off.
Jim
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 0926, Carter, Baron wrote:
> Anyone notice that the scientists uses metric but the narrator
> continues to use the ancient units of measure.
>
> What is it with the discovery channel that it insists on converting
> to the old system. Why do they continue to insult us all with this?
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