On 2009/05/01, at 8:16 AM, Jeremiah MacGregor wrote:
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
Dear Jerry,
You might have missed this article that I sent to the Obama team
before the 2008 election. It is called, A metrication elephant and it
is about science policy in the USA. You can find it at: http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/AMetricationElephant.pdf
where it questions the policies of the science and engineering
communities in the USA to 'think metric' and to 'dumb down' for the
public.
Cheers,
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
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and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA.
Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST,
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