Howard, I sent your email to a pro-metric friend of mine who loves "Dune", and I see that I failed to ask you about the "one reference to non-SI units" which he wanted me to ask you. Can you remember that? My friend is curious. Please guard his email address, but I too am curious what you know.
BTW, I mentioned this in MT, which will soon be coming out, but I did not go into tremendous detail. This is just our curiosity. Don From: USMA <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Howard Ressel Sent: Monday, 8 November, 2021 22:00 To: 'USMA List Server' <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA 1826] Re: Fahrenheit 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]<mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Michael Payne Sent: Monday, November 8, 2021 11:38 AM To: USMA List Server <[email protected]<mailto:[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
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