Pat, You must have missed my follow-up response to Martin. I agree with your point. But if you consider that the metric is changed to imperial, then rounded to make the imperial look user friendly and then later reconverted to metric; the reconverted metric may be different then the original figures. Hence the confusion as to which units may be more correct, even though both can be wrong to a degree.
Does this make sense? Jerry ________________________________ From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 3:28:51 PM Subject: [USMA:42953] RE: Aussie fires Dear Jerry, All the original data was measured in metric units, recorded in metric units, communicated in metric units, and then dumbed down by the Yahoo journalist presumably because the journalist is catering to those he or she regards as the retarded people in the UK and in the USA who can't cope with 17th century progress. You might like to listen to the streaming of the fire emergency radio radio station at http://www.abc.net.au/melbourne for a few minutes where all official measuring is reported in metric units - only. Dear Martin and Harry, Thanks for your thoughts. It will be a hard time for us as we recover from this disaster. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia 70 kilometres from the nearest fire On 2009/02/09, at 3:55 AM, Jeremiah MacGregor wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090208/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_wildfires The link from Yahoo puts the English units first and the metric second. I think there are some conversion errors so I'm not sure which is correct, the English or the metric. Jerry From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 4:18:51 AM Subject: [USMA:42945] RE: Aussie fires [off topic] After I left this conference a few minutes ago (09:15 GMT), I visited the BBC website - http://news.bbc.co.uk/. The pictures of the Aussie bush-fires were horrific. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harry Wyeth Sent: 08 February 2009 08:12 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:42944] Aussie fires I am sure we all send our sympathies to our Aussie friends, including Pat, for the terrible fires they are experiencing. And I see that their temps hit 47º--same as we had in Northern California two summers ago. If you have never been that hot--well, it is really, really hot. It made our swimming pool hit 34º at one point. Carry on, Mate. See: http://apnews.myway.com//article/20090208/D9677UMO0.html HARRY WYETH Pat Naughtin wrote: > Dear All, > > As I advised yesterday we were in for a hot dry day with low humidity > yesterday; the prediction was for 44 °C. It turned out that the > temperature at the Avalon airport near Geelong was the hottest place > in the state. The temperature there reached 46.9°C at 15:00 with winds > gusting between 10 km/h and 60 km/h. > See http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801/IDV60801.94854.shtml Pat Naughtin PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
