How would funding scientific research help the metrication effort? Since Science is already metric, there would be no need to spend money on something already accomplished.
Jerry ________________________________ From: Scott Hudnall <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:15:20 PM Subject: [USMA:44918] Increased scientific research funding. President Obama has pledged that as a nation, we should target 3% of GDP toward scientific research. This combined with private-sector spending on R & D means that a SIGNIFICANT sector of the US economy will be exposed to metric usage on a daily basis at work. This is an excellent opportunity to contact some of the agencies such as the NSF and NIST listed here in this article stressing the importance of metric in the sciences. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43271/title/Obama_pledges_3_percent_of_GDP_for_research Scott
