I participate in CoCoRaHS (http://www.cocorahs.org/), an organization
that collects daily precipitation observations from a rapidly growing
network of nearly 10 000 volunteers in the U.S. (Please consider
joining!) After the daily report has been submitted the acknowledgment
page appears and
Although I haven't been reading it closely in the past few months, it seems
that Time Magazine's few-year experiment with the metric system is now
over. I haven't found a trace of those nice rational metric equivalents in
the most recent issue. Can't help but wonder if this is because of people
c
If the road conversion process was quick and smooth, you'd probably have
some grumbling followed by general acceptance, like in Australia. And
continental Europe's drivers and truckers would finally breathe a sigh of
relief.
Remek
This is interesting. If you look at the memo that broke down the conversion of
NASA's Constellation Program back to English units, they mentioned that metric
would persist in certain areas, one of them being the upcoming international
moon missions. So that sets a precedent for joint projects
