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Well, I'm happy to say I saw a program on
supervolcanoes last night produced for Discovery by the BBC that was mostly
metric. Even the American scientists were mostly using SI (though some used
kuh-LA-muh-ters instead of KILL-oh-meters, including one fellow who used
both pronunciations at different times in the same sentence!). Perhaps the
biggest shock of all was that the American narrator was allowed to use SI,
sometimes all by itself, sometimes followed by the US Customary
equivalent.
In any case, this bodes well. I hope the trend
continues on Discovery (which had been adamantly refusing to use metric as much
as possible based on the shows I had seen in the past) and that it spreads to
other networks as well.
Ezra
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- [USMA:31360] Eating a bit of crow Ezra Steinberg
