** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** Hi all,
I listened to his comments and the one "fact" that he explained was wrong. The metric system was not implemented in 1789. Work on a replacement for the existing chaos that masqueraded as a system of units was authorised by the National Assembly in 1791 and the provisional metric system was accepted in 1795. Once the Dunkirk-Barcelona survey was completed, the definitive version of the metric system was implemented in 1799. Martin Vlietstra -----Original Message----- From: USMA <usma-boun...@lists.colostate.edu> On Behalf Of c...@traditio.com Sent: 27 September 2023 23:08 To: USMA List Server <usma@lists.colostate.edu> Subject: [USMA 1975] Neil deGrasse Tyson Is a Metric Joke ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** I give you the link, and you make up your own mind: https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7Cb476ce925d11460c140208dbc02d48ad%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C638315072951248203%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=N98iHZ7e2R8qke10qiUIeN68ixASnLEBo5qXY7In7I0%3D&reserved=0 .com%2F%40sonde2007%2Fvideo%2F7184117059045969195&data=05%7C01%7Cusma%40list s.colostate.edu%7Cbc13e75e8cf04f6fe76608dbbfa628d1%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367 ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C638314492589754030%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wL jAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata= Fc94B2%2FrT2FVr8X2WcV%2BgpvofBP6CZp38R0zozrVjgI%3D&reserved=0 MY RANT. Over the years I have been deeply involved with the astronomical community and am quite familiar with Tyson's nonsense. He tried to replace the eminent Carl Sagan with an "updated" version of Sagan's epic 1980 PBS series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage." I even had some correspondence about the series with Sagan, complimenting him on his lively historical focus. In contrast to Sagan's erudite, but approachable, series, Tyson's version was little more than a joke, even though he was a student of Sagan's. At the time I wrote a review seriously panning Tyson's "updated" version. Sagan was an educator, whose dedication to public education poured from every pore of his body. I don't know what his position on metric was, but I would bet that he would have wanted to educate both children and adults on the scientific metric system. Tyson rarely teaches. As on this occasion, he threw away an opportunity to educate the public about the advantages of the metric system. Tyson could have talked about the desire of U.S. founders at the time of the French and American Revolutions, particularly Jefferson, to convert to the metric system and could have told that interesting history. But, no, Tyson seems to make a joke of the metric system. I wonder whether he even knows the history of the metric system in this country. I'll bet Sagan did! _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
