On 2009/04/18, at 9:18 PM, Han Maenen wrote:
I was on the USMA site on the page 'Published articles about metric
- 2009' and found this:
Metric is no way to measure By Glynn Moore| Columnist
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, 2009-Mar-16, 1p., Moore,G.; Metric is
no way to measure. [http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/03/16/moo_514811.shtml
]
I can hardly believe that an intelligent person can spout such
trash. All the old scare mongering canards are back again like:
A body temperature of 37.77 degrees, converted from 101.8 degrees
Fahrenheit - too accurate.
A weatherman predicting 26.7 C = 80 degrees Fahrenheit. That is new
to me: nature has standardized the weather to the Fahrenheit scale
(and I also suppose to the inHg and the inch of precipitation).
Using metric the weatherman would predict 27 degrees of course.
A speed limit of 55 mph equates to 88 km/h. In metric it would be 90
km/h.
"As globalization continues, a football field is destined to become
91.44 meters long". Of course, if American football should go metric
one day, it would be wile to move to a 100 m field. Although soccer
still uses soft converted measurements.
Not one valid argument against metric, just garbage. Maybe is this
supposed to be funny.
Han
Dear Han,
I have just sent a copy of the article, Don't use metric', for his
amusement. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/DontUseMetric.pdf
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
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Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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