How about this, could we ask Wikipedia to go metric? Maybe ask other countries to fund it?
On Tue, Nov 9, 2021, 1:00 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Send USMA mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of USMA digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. [USMA 1826] Re: Fahrenheit (Howard Ressel) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 00:00:05 -0500 > From: "Howard Ressel" <[email protected]> > To: "'USMA List Server'" <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA 1826] Re: Fahrenheit > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Thumbs Up Movie (for the most part). > > > > Saw Dune recently, not sure what units Frank Herbert used in the original > (I > may have to see if I can find that in my copy) but in the movie metric is > used almost exclusively. I say almost as there is one reference to non-Si > units for some reason. I'd like to hope it was likely a mistake that a > script editor did not find. > > > > Howard > > > > From: USMA <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Michael Payne > Sent: Monday, November 8, 2021 11:38 AM > To: USMA List Server <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA 1825] Re: Fahrenheit > > > > Which publication are we talking about here? Or have I not recieved the > previous correspondence? > > > > Mike Payne > > > > > > On 8 Nov 2021, at 01:09, Hillger,Donald <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Thanks Stan for responding. > > > > I urge everyone who sees this to reply and support a more-logical Celsius > scale. This is one of those things USMA members and USMA listserver > subscribers can do to support the metric cause. They need to hear from > metric supporters to let them know that not everyone is ok with Fahrenheit. > > > > Don Hillger > > USMA President > > > > From: USMA <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Stanislav Jakuba > Sent: Sunday, 7 November, 2021 09:11 > To: Sushil Kanwar <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >; > Lazar Pevac <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; Eric > Guyer <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; U.S. Metric > Association <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Subject: [USMA 1823] Fahrenheit > > > > This Sunday paper again promotes Fahrenheit. I wrote the following in > response: > > I enjoy reading your columns (Sunday HC). Except this Sunday when you > state: > ".... Celsius to stay in the science". > > I wonder what it is that "... makes it more sensible in the science?" > > > > Perhaps you mean the Kelvin scale, because the Celsius scale is certainly > "sensible" to just about everybody in the world outside the US. And you > know > that, of course. Everybody is familiar with water. Setting on the > approximation of 0 and 100 scale is apparently more convenient than > alternatives, Fahrenheit included. > > > > With the best wishes, > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/private/usma/attachments/20211109/d9d99b8c/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > > > ------------------------------ > > End of USMA Digest, Vol 72, Issue 4 > *********************************** >
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