I personally enjoyed the conversion of 100 miles into km by Miles O'Brien.
At first, he said, "That is about 60 km." Then added, "I did this
backwards, didn't I. Well, it is 120 km." Needless to say, that he did not
attempt to do any conversions after this one. JOKE! I did note that the
ITT Technologies guy kept using SI, even when he was describing the mass of
all space junk falling on Earth every day, he kept using kg.
Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Han Maenen
Sent: 22 March 2001 23.12
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:11775] fall of MIR on CNN
It is 0:650 when I write this e-mail and I am looking at CNN's program about
the demise of the MIR. It is a real ifp festival. Some of those interviewed
use SI, but CNN does not know what that is, evidently. You see a counter at
43.xxxxxxxxxx miles going down. Yes, very logical and rational to use
decimal fractions in ifp, just as logical as dividing the kilometer in
1024ths and 2048ths!
CNN did its vievers a very bad service. Once again we see the pretension
that all nations use ifp!
Han
