[meteorite-list] Ad - Please Ignore!!!! Way off topic!!!! Stating the OBVIOUS!??

[j.divelbiss at att.net]

Metric...I remember that...we were going to convert our country (USA) from english to metric back in the 70's.  Somehow that didn't happen...along with a few other ideas we had then. 

"And don't forget to divide by 32.2 unless you are doing thermodynamics, then ignore that comment." 

What a system!

JD

-------------- Original message from "Jerry A. Wallace" <jwal2000 at swbell.net>: -------------- 


> Hi Adam, 
> 
> The problem here lies not with you but with the average American who 
> is almost totally ignorant when it comes to the 'mysteries' of the metric 
> system. 
> 
> The average (older) American doesn't know a centimeter from a centipede 
> or a millimeter from a millipede. They can't tell you which has more 
> volume: 
> a quart or a liter (except for a few dedicated drinkers who figured it 
> out at 
> the liquor store years ago when the distillers went through the conversion 
> process to metrics.) 
> 
> There was a once a highly promoted national program that was meant to 
> educate Americans about the use of the metric system and then gradually 
> convert the country over to its use. If memory serves, it seems like 
> that was 
> during the Kennedy administration. It was a rational and noble effort that 
> died on the vine because it brought the populace of our fair country 
> together 
> like few things before or since. I well remember all the kickin', screamin', 
> shoutin', and hollerin' that the proposal caused. "Yessiree and by 
> dang," they 
> shouted in unison, "the old methods of using inches, feet, yards, 
> fractions, 
> quarts, gallons and the like were good enough for our forefathers, so by 
> jingo, 
> they're good enough for us." 
> 
> Well, the government cratered to popular will, therefore we're still 
> building 
> and measuring things with a system of measurements that was created by 
> establishing the distance between the tip of the King's nose to the tip 
> of the 
> King's thumb with his arm outstretched as being one yard (whatever that 
> was). 
> 
> The metric system is actually based on scientific reasoning and is 
> incredibly 
> easier to use. It actually makes sense. I don't know what is being taught or 
> used in schools now, but I can only hope that the metric system is the 
> preferred system. If it is, then it's one of the few things that the 
> feds had any 
> input on that was truly useful and right. But then that's a different 
> can of 
> worms. 
> 
> So, my recommendation to you is "stick with using the centimeter cubes as 
> scale comparisons in your photos, and thereby force the boneheads to go 
> out and buy a metric ruler." It'll be good for the economy and may give 
> the knuckleheads a clue the next time they meet a centimeter or millimeter. 
> 
> Just some thoughts from the west Texas wilderness, 
> 
> Jerry 
> 
> 
> Adam Hupe wrote: 
> 
> >Dear List, 
> > 
> >I must be missing something here. Using a 1 cm cube to give a perspective 
> >buyer some scale is considered by some a corruption of use? It tells a lot 
> >about this public forum when something as innocent as a scale provided in an 
> >image so that a perspective buyer can make an informed decision about the 
> >size of the object is somehow considered a scam. It makes the avocation so 
> >much more enjoyable. Just, what is proper scale etiquette? 
> > 
> >Kind Regards, 
> > 
> >Adam 
> > 
> > 
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