What about the car dashboard in both countries? That is odd that they left it at 48 km/h but maybe they only made the change because all the cars had metric odometers and they just went for a soft conversion then for a rounding.
What about the people, did they speak metric (in both countries)? What about scales in the market? If Liberia is completely metric, then why is it still listed as imperial. One would think the government of Liberia would refute the claim and just announce the country is metric. But when you have a government that has to fight for its life to stay in power, metric may not be a priority issue. Can you tell us more about Liberia, such as what you specifically saw that was metric. When were you there, in both Liberia and Burma? Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2004-05-23 21:29 Subject: [USMA:29947] RE: Metrication > Liberia was completely metric, Myanmar sold fuel at old (and I mean old) > gas pumps in Imperial Gallons, the fuel truck at the airport was in liters, > the speed limits were in km/h except that they were in the local script > which was unreadable to me, I asked the driver what the speed limit in town > was and he said 48 km/h. This is a direct conversion from 30 mph, fairly > weird but there might be lead in the water! The lav truck at the airport > had US Gallons as the quantity, but it was a new truck and probably > imported from the US as such. Temperatures in the local English language > newspaper were in both degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius. A real mish mash of > units, but overall substantially metric even if they were non standard > numbers (48 instead of 50 km/h). Once the speeds have converted, most of > the population will use metric or the previous local units. Definitely not > US Customary. > > Michael Payne > > > > [Original Message] > > From: MightyChimp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 23/5/04 14:07:34 > > Subject: Re: [USMA:29925] RE: Metrication > > > > You have? Well, can you elaborate on your experience? > > > > Euric > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Michael Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, 2004-05-23 13:31 > > Subject: [USMA:29925] RE: Metrication > > > > > > > Although Liberia and Myanmar have not officially adopted the metric > > system, > > > they are to all intent mostly metric. I've been to both countries and > > wrote > > > the article that appeared in Metric today about 7 years ago. It's > > > unfortunate, the way it's worded gives the impression that they are not > > > metric. > > > > > > Michael Payne > > > > > > > > > > [Original Message] > > > > From: Stephen Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Date: 23/5/04 10:03:03 > > > > Subject: [USMA:29921] Metrication > > > > > > > > Since Wikipedia has been a topic of conversation lately, can some > > > > of you take a look at its article on "Metrication" at:. > > > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication > > > > > > > > If anybody sees inaccuracies, or topics they feel should be made, > > > > and they want to let me know, I'll post the changes. You are all > > > > free to change it yourselves, if you wish, especially if you've posted > > > > to Wikipedia before. I just think that if too many newcomers (and > > > > I'm a relative newcomer), start making changes all at once it will > > > > raise attention to itself. > > > > > > > > Let me know > > > > > > > > > > > > --- Michael Payne > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet. > > > > > > > > > --- Michael Payne > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet. > >
