David-- I hadn't thought of it that way, but maybe you're onto something
here, the silver lining in the cloud, so to speak. The gradual conversion
to metric on television (and there are many other instances as well) may
halp lessen resistance and get people metricated over a period of time
without their really becoming aware of it and having to make a big issue
about it. Whenever the metrication occurs naturally (e.g., in soft drinks
and lighting) is just happens, without controversy. --Martin Morrison
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, [email protected] wrote:
My wife Michele and I recently watched a Nova episode: Asteroid: Doomsday or
Payday? and I noticed that instead of the usual Nova rendering of most
measures in non-SI units, many measures were only SI, like meters and
kilometers with no equivalents given in yards, feet or miles. Of course I
would have preferred the whole episode in exclusively SI units, but some
"experts" still used exclusively non-SI measures. Some gave measures then
parenthetically gave their equivalents.
Today we watched Fareed Zakaria (GPS) interview Elon Musk of Space X about
many new innovations, including his Hyperloop.
I noticed that Figure 12
https://raw.github.com/leonidkozhukh/hyperloop/master/images/figure%2012.png
uses exclusively SI measures. Have a look at the graphic.
Even though I would like to see the United States complete metrication at a
faster pace, I think this slow, incremental creep seems to be how many
Americans are becoming accustomed to our inevitable slide toward abandoning
non-SI measures.
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
