We've had much comment here about the dumbing down of the metric dimensions by the US news media in connection with the recent Air France crash in Toronto. How about the process working in reverse, for a change:
A few days ago, when the news of the space shuttle problems first emerged, BBC's website reported the length of the protruding ceramic strips as 1 1/2 inches (probably a NASA dumbing-down). Several hours later, the same report was "smarted up" to 4 cm. Remek
