That article is pretty sad and full of ignorance. ... it could help the sport heat up a bit, if not reach a full boil, which > is what — 600 degrees Celsius?"
*Seriously?* I'm glad that the comments are much more metric-positive and that those comments extolling the virtues of SI and rightfully criticizing non-metric units are being recommended by many people. Ignoring metric won't make it go away or its use in this country any less necessary, dual measurement will not make the average American more metric-proficient (because they will almost always look only at the non-metric); the only solution to our measurement problem is to metricate very quickly and exclusively. * * *Zach Rodriguez* http://twitter.com/#!/metric8america http://twitter.com/#!/zachrodriguez On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Metric Rules Info <[email protected]>wrote: > Speculates that “Track and field is relatively unpopular in the U.S., > maybe because its feats are measured in a way that is meaningless to most > Americans.” **** > > ** ** > > > http://www.npr.org/2012/08/12/158658876/hard-lessons-at-the-olympics-like-the-metric-system?ft=1&f=1001 > **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** >
