Columnist Glynn Moore shows the mentality of news writers. She lacks
complete understanding of the world she lives in.
However, through her access to writing in a newspaper, she is able to
influence the uneducated public. US pre-college students rank 13th out of 15
OCED countries, so its no wonder.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Han Maenen
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 7:18 AM
Subject: [USMA:44730] Is this a joke or is it supposed to be serious?
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
