Hi Parker, Very well done site for people who are interested in learning about the metric system and would be a great educational tool, but most people are either already in favor of it or don't care. Preaching to the choir. However, I really like one section of it (shown below, I hope the text format comes through on the email.) That is the kind of thing that is needed to convince people to consider looking at the system. It is simple. It can be read and understood in 20 seconds. If anything else is added it will start to look too much like math and most people's short attention will fade. The point is not to try to educate them, just to get them to look more favorably on the metric system so people will become more accepting of metric packaging in the grocery store and with other products, and, as Martin says, get used to it in daily life, which has to be done before there is any real hope of conversion.
WHY METRIC? When our country was founded, we had pounds, shillings and pennies. 1 shilling = 12 pennies 1 pound = 20 shillings It was clumsy and complicated. You divide by 12 and 20, carry, to add numbers. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington came up with the idea of decimal money and convinced the congress to go with decimal money. 1 dollar = 100 cents. Today, we still use legacy weights and measures: 1 foot = 12 inches 1 yard = 3 feet 1 fathom = 2 yards 1 mile = 880 fathoms 1 mile = 63360 inches The French took our idea of decimal money and developed the decimal metric system of weights and measures. 1 meter = 100 centimeters It is just like: 1 dollar = 100 cents. ________________________________ From: USMA <[email protected]> on behalf of Parker Willey Jr. <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2020 7:10 AM To: USMA List Server <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA 1320] Complicated vs simple measurement methodologies Hi: Take a look at my web site: sites.google.com/site/mymetric See my latest argument for adopting the metric system. You can copy and forward it to everybody. It needs to be put in front of all American people to show that our legacy units of measurement is just a big KLUDGE! ...Parker _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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