Jim-- I like your list! It is a gentle reductio ad absurdum to educate
those who are against metric for reasons that they themselves don't
understand.
I myself had made up a kind of "canned" answer to post on these internet
opinion boards, which I append for others, if they want to use it. (I
think that someone in USMA already did something like this, but I couldn't
find it.) --Martin Morrison
"According to the U.S. Metric Association, the United States is now about
70 per cent converted to the metric system since the passage of the 1988
Omnibus and Trade Competitiveness Act. Completely or almost completely
converted are the following areas: (1) pharmaceuticals (grams,
milliliters, etc.); (2) lighting (lumens, kelvin, etc.); (3) nuclear power
(sieverts); (4) electricity (watts, volts, kilowatt hours, etc.); (5)
alcoholic beverages (liters, milliliters); (6) automobiles, bicycles, and
their parts (built to metric units); (7) science; (8) medicine, (9)
computing. (10) solar power (e.g., watts per square meter), (11) time
(seconds, etc.), (12) Olympic and other sports events (meters, kilograms,
etc.), (13) food and nutrition (grams. milligrams, calories, etc.), (14)
radio (kilohertz, megahertz, etc.), (15) bottled water and soft drinks
(liters, milliliters, etc.), (16) weather (millibars).
"There are some areas in which obsolescent units persist, such as mileage
and temperatures (Fahrehneit). In U.S. news reports, however, there is
increasing usage of meters, centimeters, kilometers, kilograms, degrees
Celsius, and other metric units. Cell phones, such as Google and iPhone,
over a metric option. Programs and apps usually offer a metric option or
use metric units as the default."
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