Nice article, Nat! A lot of this has been said before but it was worth
updating. The Dallas Morning News seems particularly adept at keeping up with
science and technology.
I wonder how many of the Dallas readers realized that "our beloved pound"
(actually, both the troy pound and the pound avoirdupois) has been based on
this kilogram for 109 years now and that this affects the size of the pound
as well. Betcha many of those readers figured it was a problem with the
metric system alone and thus felt better about "not being on the metric
system".
Jim
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Nat Hager III wrote:
> 2002 Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
> Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
> The Dallas Morning News
>
> November 23, 2002, Saturday
>
> SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS
>
> KR-ACC-NO: K2945
>
> LENGTH: 1610 words
>
> HEADLINE: Original kilogram losing mass, status, scientists say
....
> The squat metal cylinder weighs exactly 1 kilogram, as it should. It is the
> world's definition of mass, the standard kilogram against which all others
> are judged.
....
> "The thing that unites us in the world is the definition of the units," said
> De Bievre.
>
> The metric system, used almost everywhere in the world except for the United
> States, ...
