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I recently visited the Kitt Peak
Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, for an evening of astronomy and information on
the observatory. It's a great place and they have a nice program, but
notwithstanding all the scientific stuff for sale at the gift shop, everything
was ifp! The guides talked only in miles (when not dealing in light-years)
and even the rulers for sale at the shop were the old wooden kind with inches
only. The only metric I heard were references to the diameter of the
mirrors on some of the telescopes, but even then some of the were referred to in
inches.
I plan to write them with a
suggestion to get with the program.
HARRY WYETH
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