Maybe so, Harry and Victor, but it is incumbent upon supporters of U.S. metrication to do something rather than nothing to advance this national goal. I shall continue to do so if I am the only person left in the U.S. who does. Otherwise, the silence and the darkness are total, and nothing grows at all. WE can continue to be, not the goats, the GOADS, for government and industry to go metric. Like the man with his multiple trials of filaments in a vacuum, or like the two dogged bicycle makers from Ohio, we must keep our eyes on the prize.
Quoting Harry Wyeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Victor is right. I have been saying for years that nothing we--the > USMA--can do will move the USA toward true metrication. We can post > emails and write letters from now until 2100 and it won't change > anything. What will change things--and about the only thing-- will be > for either the federal government or a large corporation to "go metric" > in a substantial way. If Exxon-Mobil started measuring oil by the cubic > meter, or Microsoft began posting everything in SI, or if the AP changed > its stupid writing rules, or the feds began demanding that all PX > suppliers sell milk in 2 L containers, or the Weather Service posted > temps only in degrees C--these would get things started. Until then, we > will just muddle around, and around..... > > My 4-year Olympic prediction for NBC, which I make every 4 years and is > always accurate, is that we will be treated to more commentary about the > 10,000 m run being "six miles", field events results in feet and inches, > and so forth. Just watch--if you can see through the smog. > > HARRY WYETH > > -- Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 USA +1(432)528-7724 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
