Mike, What exactly do you mean by the phrase dumbing down? This is the second time I encountered it today.
Jerry ________________________________ From: Michael Payne <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 3:01:24 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:42454] Re: An Associated Press article in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution I think he's merely pointing out that the unit has been changed for US consumption, dumbing down things in other words which happens continually here in the US. A Hectare by the way is 100 m by 100 m. 1 km x 1 km would be 100 Ha. An acre is about 4000 m2 or 0,4 Ha. Mike Payne ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeremiah MacGregor To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Saturday, 24 January 2009 18:24 Subject: [USMA:42454] Re: An Associated Press article in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution Norman, Who in the US would know what 2500 hectares is? I don't even know what 6180 acres is. I would prefer it if they used square miles or kilos. Jerry ________________________________ From: Norman & Nancy Werling <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 9:50:06 AM Subject: [USMA:42415] An Associated Press article in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution USMA list members, Spanish energy company Acciona Energia will build a wind farm in Mexico which will be the largest in Latin America. The article was written by Mark Stevenson of Associated Press. It states that the wind farm will be 6180 acres. When converted back to hectares that would have been 2500 hectares. Don't you agree that Mark Stevenson was required to convert those 2500 hectares to 6180 acres by the Associated Press, even had he wanted to report using the metric measure? Norm Werling
