> [Original Message] > From: MightyChimp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 23/5/04 21:55:22 > 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 I was in Liberia in 1989, before all these wars. Temperature was in Celsius, pressure was in hPa, fuel was in Liters, speeds were in km/h. Scales at the airport were in kg.
I was in Myanmar the last time in 1999. All the vehicle speedometers were in km/h. Cannot recall looking at any scales. Most stores were lo tech balance type of scales. Could have been anything. The hotel in Rangoon was very modern, hard to beat anywhere for comfort and service. Outside on the street, things were a lot simpler, cooking over charcoal, no electricity, etc. Michael Payne > > > ----- 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. > > > > --- Michael Payne --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet.
