-----Original Message----- From: kilopascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: February 16, 2002 10:34 Subject: [USMA:18222] Fw: forgive the intrusion .. [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America]
>> You may not feel that the yard should be set equal to the metre (1:1), but >in many respects, it already is. >> >> In many applications in the media, where the metre is used, the American >Press and other news services regularly transliterate the names without >converting the numbers. >> >> Thus a fire reported "....200 m down the road...." in Australia will be >reported as 200 yards in the US press, not 218.7 yards. >> >> There are many instances of conversion errors in the press, but only those >who pay attention notice them. Americans are really very poor when it comes >to measurements. They think they know what their units mean, but they don't. >They are just comfortable with the names. Amen! Amen! (Canadians too) D. >> >> Eventually, all the imperial units will take on new rational metric >values, as they did in Europe hundreds of years ago. Even the pound will >change from 454 g to 500 g, the pint from 473 mL to 500 mL, and more. >> >> John >> >> --------------------------------------------- >> DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! >> --------------------------------------------- >> You have chosen to receive messages from "Metric America" by email. >> >> Reply to this message: >> >http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=metricameric a >&sid=12177109&mid=1091 >> >> Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: >> http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/config/change_mb_list >> >> Return to "Metric America": >> http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: >> >http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=millitesla&;. g >roupID=metricamerica&.groupType=&.code=kqkKEmys7C >> >
