PZI sir & calendar people:
If I'm not mistaken, the USA has been officially metric for about
120 years now, and federal organizations are required to use the metric
system since 1986.
Not many Americans agree!
.....involves retaining the 7 day week or looking beyond that to the 10 day
week or 'decimal' >calendar, cannot stand still while waiting for the USA
to catch up to the rest of the world.....
I do NOT see much difficulty for USA accepting/adopting the Metric System,
the whole hog way, if only if - it is acceptable to agree - New Length Unit
(m' or yd') as: 1/10^5th of arc Angle Pi/180 (i.e. 1-degree), when tied to
New Time interval (sd) as 36% of SI-atomic second.
Please see: http://www.brijvij.com/clockface-n-earth.doc
As I have been reflecting in my posts, I shall not be surprised if USA
'sponsors to nail the Calendar Question' and resolve the isuue!
Regards,
Brij Bhushan Vij
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From: "Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Greetings Stephen and all
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:54:11 -0500
Ah, but Amos has missed the point.
Room-temperature IQ, which used to be measured in Fahrenheit (68º) is now
measured in Celsiua (20º) ... at least insofar as I've been able to
observe!
Pzed
Amos Shapir wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, the USA has been officially metric for about 120
years now, and federal organizations are required to use the metric system
since 1986. The trouble is the way these edicts were implemented -- the
first just made the Imperial system "metric" by defining the inch as
exactly 2.54 cm; the latter has led to strange stuff like a sign I once
saw in a national park: "ELEVATION 609.6m (2000 ft)". The situation in
the UK is not much better, where stuff is sold in units of 91.4 cm or 227
grams.
All this makes the common people regard the metric system as something so
complicated that only scientists can cope with. However, there is still
hope, as a new generation grows up who had learned the metric system at
school, and actually have used it a bit; they will not be afraid to
conduct their businesses in metric if they have to.
From: Philip DeRosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:04:28 -0800
Greetings Stephen and all:
Calendar reform proposals and discussion, whether it involves retaining
the 7 day week or looking beyond that to the 10 day week or 'decimal'
calendar, cannot stand still while waiting for the USA to catch up to the
rest of the world. In terms of the 'metric' (decimal) system we must all
be aware by now that it is only little Liberia and Myanmar (the former
Burma), and the USA that haven't officially adopted the simple Metric
(decimal) System of Weights and Measures and Celsius Temperature Scale,
but rather still retain the awkward and unscientific Imperial System and
Fahrenheit Scale. More advanced on this issue than these three
Neanderthal holdouts, all the rest of the world together with the
prompting of US business prodded Pres. Ronald Reagan to pass a bill
requiring all US export companies to use both systems to forestall any
loss of world trade. The US pharmaceutical industry and others had been
using the 'metric' (decimal) system long before that.
Inch by inch they are coming out of the closet and admitting that the
rest of the world's 'Metric' (decimal) system makes more sense than an
"Imperial' system based on the size of a dead king's foot. The latest
good news is that NASA, and they should be congratulated for doing this,
agreed to use only the 'metric' (decimal) system for at least all its
future lunar flights. NASA scientists want to make the entire lunar
project a metric-only job. It probably will take another 25 to 50 years
for US businesses to force the US government to officially adopt the
world 'Metric (decimal) System' and discard the practically obsolete
'Imperial'one. Considering the massive market penetration and impact that
an industrialized, developed, and 'metric' (decimal) China and India will
have globally it is easy to see that the US ego balloon of being the
'biggest and best' will burst once the formally sleeping giant tiger and
elephant reach their stride. Most of us will still be alive to witness
this.
If the US still believed in a flat world or that Planet Earth was the
centre of the Universe and is only 6000 years old, should world science
bide its time until they became enlightened and caught up to us? No, we
should not be held back by those who continue to live in the old world
and so it is imperative that we continue to work on calendar reform even
though the USA continues to lag behind. Change is the only constant.
Nothing is fixed, for always, permanent, or forever.
Phil De Rosa LINKING NATURE AND COMMON SENSE
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