At 9:26 -0400 01/04/23, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
>The Battle of Quebec reached its climax on Saturday. Final score was: 6000
>police involved of whom 19 were injured, 392 protesters were arrested.
I suspect these protesters being against globalization are also
against metrication. Because metric
In a message dated 2001-04-23 14:24:40 Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Canadian media have been reporting that "Canadarm 2" is 17 metres long.
greg
The Washington Post has been reporting that it's about 55 feet long.
cm
Very nice review, John.
I agree with the conclusion. As I said previously even if the conversion is not
complete the battle is won once the population's mentality has switched.
Or, if you ask any Canadian, Canada is metric despite the miles or feet for the
personal height that may appear in *so
I've often thought the arguments for and against the terms "mass" and
"weight" that I've seen bandied about in this forum were an petty exercise
in semantics. However, if NASA is talking about an object in space, this is
no longer the case. NASA and the blindly following news media give the
obje
2001-04-23
I recently spent this past Friday and Saturday in Calgary, Alberta. While
there, I had the opportunity to visit 2 grocery stores. One was called
Safeway and the other Superstore.
I went up and down each aisle and looked quickly at the products on the
shelves. From what I saw, about
Dear Ms. Humphries,
Your web page at
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/elements/mss/subsystems.html
shows the speed of operation for Station Assembly to be 2 cm/s. As I
recall from the MDRobotics pages, it is actually 6 cm/s (which would
equate with the number of inches shown).
Othe
Dear Luc, John, Chris, and All,
See notes below.
>> We had to write our answers on a piece of paper, and I made the educated
>> (and rather good) guess of 11000m. In due time the quiz master announced
>> that the correct answer was 36195ft or 11033m and then, as I prepared to
>> collect the
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
PLEASE PASS TO SCIENCE EDITOR
Dear Science Editor,
You are undoubtedly aware that the latest shuttle mission (STS-100)
carried up a manipulator arm for the International Space Station (ISS).
Despite the impression that AP wires and NASA PAO releases might leave
in your mi
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Subject: Re: [ukma] Fw: [USMA:12377] Re: Letter in Telegraph
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:36:34 +0100, Mark wrote:
>
> Sir Charles William Siemens was a German-born British engineer!
>
> Ma
2001-04-23
It is apparent that those who package don't check the rules. And those who
are suppose to enforce the rules don't always either. The only way to have
these rules enforced, would be for Mexican nationals to complain to their
authorities, and those authorities to contact the offending
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> Great! The more the public is exposed to metric pricing, the more they
will
> accept it!
>
> Roddy
>
Molly Hale (Public Affairs, CIA) faxed a letter to me in response to my
suggestions by Fax for use of nanometer (nm), joule (J), and the Federal
Register Notice (as the basis for SI) in the World Factbook (WFB).
WFB has changed the symbol for nautical mile from nm to NM within the past
year and w
Excellent! Now, why couldn't the data have been presented to the press
and in public press releases that way?
Jim
Gregory Peterson wrote:
>
> For those interested in comparing Canadarm and Canadarm2, NASA has a primarily
>metric site at:
>
> http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/elemen
Louis Jourdan wrote in USMA 12393:
>United Kingdom : 9
>Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
>Stephen Gray (1666-1736)
That can't be right. Radiation therapy was unknown in the 18th century.
Henri Moreau in his "Le Système Métrique" of 1975 on page 85 says "L. H.
Gray (English physicis
Further to my USMA 12395 in "Le Système Métrique", 1975, by H.Moreau,
published by Chiron, I found that Equador went metric in 1865 to 1871 and
Peru decided to go metric in 1862 with effect from 1869.
Moreau lists Burma as having permitted metric since 1920.
Joseph B. Reid
17 Glebe Road West
Tor
They may be only for the US internal market.
Many items are dual labeled mostly on the east and west coasts as a courtesy to the
Spanish speaking. Even the ATMs are dual language.
I remember that when I was in Mexico some 6 years ago I never saw a trace of ifp.
Now, I may be wrong since at th
Don't know whether this article had showed up on the list...
Nat
--
Copyright 2001 The Washington Post
The Washington Post
April 01, 2001, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: STYLE; Pg. F01
LENGTH: 3957 words
HEADLINE: Uncle Sam's Funhouse; Want to ignite a love seat, blow out a
For those interested in comparing Canadarm and Canadarm2, NASA has a primarily metric
site at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/elements/mss/subsystems.html
greg
Karl Ruling wrote:
> Cooks on this list might want to actually buy the sugar. This will help
> ensure that the 2 kg package isn't later withdrawn because no one
> bought it.
And, of course, recommend it to any of their friends who also cook. (I cook,
but almost exclusively main dishes, which don'
The Canadian media have been reporting that "Canadarm 2" is 17 metres long.
greg
>>> "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2001-04-22 17:53:39 >>>
2001-04-22
What percentage of the space station is actually produced to metric
dimensions by metric companies in metric countries, compared to FFU produ
I found this comment on in a document concerning computer use in Mexico on Industry
Canada's web site:
"Mexico's Federal Law on Metrology and Standardization stipulates that all weights and
measures must be in the metric system."
Yet how often do we see NAFTA packaging with "inches" or "pounds
Thanks, Louis.
Not just comprehensive, but quick too!
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Louis JOURDAN
> Sent: April 23, 2001 01:14
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subje
Bill Potts wrote:
>Despite their adoption of a hard metric size, it now seems to be pointless
>to write to congratulate them about it.
>
>I suggest we simply count their packaging action as a win for metrication
>and move on.
Cooks on this list might want to actually buy the sugar. This will help
In a Home Hardware home centre in Ontario (i.e. lumber yard) I found some metric
dimension wood screws.
They are manufactured by GRK Canada, but the literature quotes "The screw with the
German twist" and "Swiss Quality". The box itself quotes the "nominal" imperial size
in large font with the
John Kilopascal reported in USMA 12386 that Roz Denny asked if Ecuador and
Peru are metric.
Ecuador adopted the metric system in 1864; Peru in 1862. The figures I
have deduced from a graph in "Le Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
1875 - 1975", published by B.I.P.M.
Joseph B. Reid
17 Gl
The Battle of Quebec reached its climax on Saturday. Final score was: 6000
police involved of whom 19 were injured, 392 protesters were arrested.
Within the Battle of Quebec the Summit of the Americas concluded amicably.
Cost of the events was estimated by the press to have been over
$100-millio
At 15:00 -0700 01/04/22, Bill Potts wrote:
>By the way, I seem to remember that someone had the full list, by
>nationality (Dennis? Joe? Jim?). It might make a good addition to SI
>Navigator (when I finally find the time -- still unpacking from our move).
>If not, I can put it together myself.
Be
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