Reuters is not metric-friendly. Almost all its news and items are ifp, no matter from where the news comes. They would state, for instance, that the Eiffeltower in Paris is 984 feet high. I would not have been surprised if 'ten million degrees' had been Fahrenheit if the other site you mention had not informed us that the temperature is 10 000 000 degrees (sic) kelvin.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "M R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2002-03-05 15:58 Subject: [USMA:18538] Fusion Article:No Kelvin Scientists claim success in cold fusion experiment: Reuters article @ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&u=/nm/20020304/sc_nm/sci ence_fusion_dc_1 gives '10 million degrees' without stating whether it is celsius / kelvin, but this webpage http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/science/2002-03/taleyarkh-3-8-02.html gives '10 million degrees kelvin'. If the guy at Reuters forgot kelvin, then its fine, but if he deliberately skipped that word, then its a wrong thing on the part of the media. <snip>
