2002-07-01 And another thing! The dope with the anti-metric comment was too stupid to see that the person who made the comment about speed of light in metric terms is from Sweden, where metric usage is normal. Thus the person is not metric obsessed. We need more people like Paul Schlyter with guts to correct the ignorant by stating info in metric and make it known that only a ignorant minority still cling to FFU.
John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nat Hager III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2002-07-01 22:14 Subject: [USMA:20760] Optimism vs. Pessimism [was RE: Re: Reciprocal quantities (was: L/100 km)] > Recent post on Google Groups. Just to put all this in perspective.... > > Nat > > -------------------------------------------- > > From: JOHN PAZMINO ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Subject: Re: How is a light year e > Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur > View: Complete Thread (12 articles) | Original Format > Date: 2002-06-16 13:49:12 PST > > > PS> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Schlyter) > PS> Subject: Re: How is a light year exactly measured? > PS> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:00:56 +0000 (UTC) > PS> Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening > > PS> >>> 186,000 mph, give or take. > PS> >> > PS> >> The speed of light is generally considered to be: > PS> >> > PS> >> 299,792,458 meters per second. > PS> > > PS> > Boy, those metric-obessed types are persnickey, aren't they?! > PS> > PS> Welcome to the real world! Some day the US too will have to become > PS> less backwards, and start using the system of units which virtually > PS> all of the non-US parts of the world already uses.
