Were your friends complaining about the status quo? What direction do they
think the UK should take on the issue, if any?
Can you give us more details of your experience?
Dan
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From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, 2005-07-05 19:05
Subject: [USMA:33450] Re: BBC-- a basket case?
I was in the UK the past couple of weeks. Most interesting was the use of
"m" on motorway signs to mean "miles", as in, "A32 exit 1/2 m" ... a sign
only 500 mm from the exit would not be very useful.
UKMA is right, it's quite a jumble still. Friends over there said the
problem was not doing it all at once like the Australians did.
Carleton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Stephen Humphreys
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 03:53
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:33445] Re: BBC-- a basket case?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4646969.stm
This one is interesting for the use of "m" to mean "millions":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4649423.stm
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:33437] Re: BBC-- a basket case?
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 16:01:07 +0100
Today following the actual impact they report it in metric only:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4647673.stm
Phil Hall
----- Original Message -----
From: Ezra Steinberg
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 5:46 AM
Subject: [USMA:33435] BBC-- a basket case?
So, here we are, on the web site of the official British news
organization discussing a science event (the crashing of the space probe
into a comet for the first time), and every single appearance of SI is
immediately followed by Imperial (in parentheses):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4642845.stm
Sadly, this isn't any better than NASA's site (at least based on the
couple of pages I quickly sampled on this topic), which also leads with SI
and follows with US Customary in parentheses.
Ah, well. As an eternal optimist, I continue to hold out hope that one
day Britain will once again lead the way!
Ezra
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