Re: misc.metric-system

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:36:19 GMT, "George Conklin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>"Michael G. Koerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> JD wrote:
>> >
>> > "Phil McKerracher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > > In case you have not already seen it:
>> > >
>> > > We are trying to set up a new newsgroup
>> > >
>> > >   misc.metric-system
>> > >
>> > > dedicated to discussions about the metric system and its introduction
>> > > in areas where it is not yet widely used.
>> >
>> > NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! We don't want it. We don't need it. We can't afford
>it.
>>
>> That 'we' most certainly does NOT include me.
>>
>> > Stop wasting our time.
>>
>> Weeding through the 'Olde Englishe' measures that we are stuck with now
>> wastes an INCREDIBLE amount of my time.  I would love to be able to
>> interpret things such as construction zone road signs that use different
>> units on the fly by only having to move a decimal point.
>>
>> Among many other things, my mind also wants to know how many degrees
>> above or below freezing the outside temperature is, NOT a quick thing to
>> do with 'Olde Englishe'.
>>
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>> Michael G. Koerner               May they   |    | |  |    | |   rise
>again!
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>   Forgive Koerner.  He has to feel he is up-to-date.  Progressive.  In
>favor of anything which most people could care less about.  We don't export
>the weather, but then, what the heck, we must admire anything they do in
>Europe as superior.


Europe?  What's that nonsense?

There is exactly one country in the world where official weather
reports are given in degrees Fahrenheit--and even in that one country,
aviation weather reports are in degrees Celsius.

We may not export the weather, but we do waste a lot of time in our
schools teaching difficult conversion factors, which involves a
mixture of addition and multiplication.  We need them, of course,
because even in the United States, most scientific work uses degrees
Celsius or kelvins.


Gene Nygaard
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/