Well, right now I'm watching the NASCAR Subway 500 from Phoenix. That's 500 km. Really. Carleton Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: "Kilopascal" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:05:24 To: <[email protected]>; U.S. Metric Association<[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:49933] Re: New BIPM web page on the \"New SI\" -- possible revision But that is going to happen anyway and the funny thing only the American general public is being made to feel this way. It is as if there is a world-wide conspiracy to make sure that America never metricates. Is there a better or more effective way to assure that the US continues to decline and nations like China and Germany continue to expand economically and technically? Only the Americans are willing to be lead in to believing that metric is all wrong and that it is communistic French plot. No one else in the developed world or developing world would ever think this way. So no matter how you word or call the new definitions it won't make a difference. The rest of the world will know and understand what the term "New SI" means and only the Americans will be turned off to it. I can see why calls by Americans to use a different naming approach will be ignored. [USMA:49933] Re: New BIPM web page on the "New SI" -- possible revision Pat Naughtin Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:53:51 -0800 Well said Bill, You put it better than any of my lame attempts previously. I particularly agree with these thoughts: > However, any reference to "changing SI" or "changing metric" will be viewed > by the general public as meaning that things like the metre and the kilogram > are being changed (in size), which the general public will believe means that > SI and metric units weren't good enough to start with, so they were probably > all wrong in the first place, and therefore the metric system is inaccurate, > stupid, bad, a plot by (take your pick) the communists, the French, or > al-Qaida, too uncertain to be a useful measurement system, etc., etc., etc. > and more etc. > > It is the perception of the general public that I am concerned about when we > start talking about "New SI", etc. I'm hoping we insist upon a way of > describing what is being done that does NOT indicate that "the metric system" > is being changed. Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia
