Maybe Discovery Channel thinks Wooley Mammoths are old enough to warrant the use of dinosaur units! Duncan -----Original Message----- From: James R. Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: March 13, 2001 10:00 Subject: [USMA:11571] Re: Discovery Channel and the Mammoth >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? > >-- >James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston >10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy >Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street >843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 >http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644 >
