Vanished before I could write anything. I find this to be too true and agree entirely.
Mike Payne On 29/04/2013, at 10:25 , Brian White <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd say one of America's biggest problems with metric conversion is the > idiotic AP. If they'd just let metric through the news, we'd start making > some progress. > From: [email protected] > Sent: 2013-04-26 11:48 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:52705] Why the Inconsistency? > > The Science Channel, which is a part of the Discovery complex, ran a "How > It's Made Program" last night. From the credits at the end, at least this > episode was produced in Canada. I was curious to see how it would run in > the United States. > > The program, in the segment on the mining of silver ore, always used > kilograms instead of pounds. There was a close-up of a scale, which > displayed a reading in "mg". But a distance was given in inches. > > These persistent inconsistences (as Canada certainly uses millimetres or > centimetres) are quite perplexing. I could understand an all-metric > program or an all non-metric program, dumbed down for the United States. > Another program, on astronomy, talked about astronomical distances in > miles (where it hardly mattered for the common perception), but shorter > distances (such as for the size of a meteor) in metres. > > It has always perplexed me why these programs are so inconsisent. In a > curious way, it confirms my approach that the United States is *not* a > non-metric country. It is a country stuck in the middle of conversion, > not unlike England and even Canada. > > Martin Morrison > Training and SI Columnist, "Metric Today" > >
