The distance from the equator to the poles is given in km. So why not use the metric system of measurement? It's rational!
It's time to standardize with the metric system of measurement. Stan Doore From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brij Bhushan Vij Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 2:00 AM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:51659] Time to SHELVE Mile RE: Fwd: "Bring Back the Mile" article Harry Wyeth, sir(s): >Please, let's not move backward, but become standardized with the rest of the world. The mile is, >thankfully, dead, at least..... Mile had an EXCLUSIVE reign over the incoming Kilometre; which has slowly found favour with the Metric World (now almost 95% to 98%).....BUT United States still drags the 'reform of Metric System' back to 'imperial non-SI system of units'. Please see: http://www.brijvij.com/bbv_shelving-NMile.pdf Not being practical to fall in tune with REST of the world, US little minds are STUCK with: What not to learn, position? It is time the USMA and policy makers decided on What to give the younger lot and INSTRUCT the teaching community 'inject the right spirit' into the YOUNG minds and gainfully employ these minds when they grow in productive force to ADOPT & IMPLEMENT the SI-Metric Units in day-to-day activity! Shelving the use of MILE for 'historical references' is a good idea. Regards, Brij Bhushan Vij Sunday, 2012 May 27H11:49(decimal)IST Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda The Astronomical Poem (revised number of days in any month) "30 days has July,September, April, June, November and December all the rest have 31 except February which has 29 except on years divisible evenly by 4; except when YEAR divisible by 128 and 3200 - as long as you remember that "October (meaning 8) is the 10th month; and December (meaning 10) is the 12th BUT has 30 days & ONE OUTSIDE of calendar-format" Jan:31; Feb:29; Mar:31; Apr:30; May:31; Jun:30 Jul:30; Aug:31; Sep:30; Oct:31; Nov:30; Dec:30 (365th day of Year is World Day) ******As per Kali V-GRhymeCalendaar***** "Koi bhi cheshtha vayarth nahin hoti, purshaarth karne mein hai" My Profile - http://www.brijvij.com/bbv_2col-vipBrief.pdf Author had NO interaction with The World Calendar Association except via Media & Organisations to who I contributed for A Possible World Calendar, since 1971. HOME PAGE: <http://www.brijvij.com/> http://www.brijvij.com/ Contact via E-mail: [email protected] OR "GAYATRI LOK" Flat # 3013/3rd Floor NH-58, Kankhal Bypass, Dev-Bhoomi, HARIDWAR-249408 (Uttrakhand - INDIA) _____ Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 01:05:20 -0700 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:51657] Fwd: "Bring Back the Mile" article This is an email I wrote to the Road Runners' Club of America about an article in their quarterly magazine for members of local running clubs in the U.S. The article may possibly be viewed here: http://issuu.com/rrcaexecdir/docs/cr-spring-lores?mode=window <http://issuu.com/rrcaexecdir/docs/cr-spring-lores?mode=window&pageNumber=2> &pageNumber=2 but you may have to specify page 12. Or it may not work at all. HARRY WYETH -------- Original Message -------- Subject: "Bring Back the Mile" article Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 00:57:40 -0700 From: Harry Wyeth <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> To: [email protected] The Road Runners' Club of America would do well to forcefully reject the proposition advanced in Duncan Larkin's article "Bring Back the Mile, America's Distance". Although interesting, his suggestion is totally wrong and misguided. Mr. Larkin is trapped in the past. Our country is the only country worth mentioning that clings to the outmoded "English" measurement system. No one else in the entire world gives much of a hoot about the mile, much less knows what one is. International track, the Olympics, American college track, and almost all U.S. high school track has moved on to the international 1500 meter (or 1600 m) standard. Why would one want to introduce an unusual "mile" distance into a high school meet with otherwise all-metric distances? Why would the author want to have high schools in California reject the standard 1600 m distance, when all colleges in the state use the 1500? And where will the money come from to convert existing 400 m tracks back into 440 yards? Please, let's not move backward, but become standardized with the rest of the world. The mile is, thankfully, dead, at least in track events. Let's keep it buried. HARRY WYETH
