Stephen said:
"With an immersion into body weights as professionals have in this field I'd
find it hard to believe that those same professionals would make such huge
errors. "
Many years ago, an Air Canada Boeing 767 was refueled in kg on a flight from
Vancouver to Toronto (AC had converted to
Re Arizona's proposals to revert to miles on I-19:
When Obama was inaugaurated, he said: "The world has changed, and we must
change with it."
Well, he got the first bit right.
John F-L
- Original Message -
From: Pat Naughtin
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Thursday, Februa
I was living in Canada in the late 1970s when Canada (half) converted. There
was a lot of discussion at the time on how difficult it was to convert between
degrees F and C. Eventually, most people agreed that in fact such difficulty
actually aided conversion to metric. Once degrees C had beco
I've heard from one pro-metric person that it's still in casual use in New
Zealand - right on the opposite side of the world to us! Interesting that -
from the sounds of things - it might have never been used in Canada (maybe
something to do with the neigbours?)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:57:4
"British Occupation". Hmm. A US view of UK history! ;-) ;-) ;-)
We have a young Irish chap in our team at work (contracts in the UK - better
pay) and I can confirm what you say (about the usage bit)
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:59:37 +
From: ezra.steinb...@comcast.net
To: usma@colostate.e
I understand your point but with respect an aeroplane is not a baby and I was
talking about figures for human weight. A professional that can 'scale'
someone by using imperial or metric will clearly see exaggerative mistakes.
I'm 12st 6lb. If a professional looked at me with 126kg in his hea
Interesting point about 'man on the street' with regards to the winter Olympics
. When the (GB) scots ladies curling team were doing their stuff you could
clearly hear the very young (and I have to say incredibly attractive) team
member speaking to her team about 'feet' and 'half a foot' regar
Interesting point about 'man on the street' with regards to the winter Olympics
. When the (GB) scots ladies curling team were doing their stuff you could
clearly hear the very young (and I have to say incredibly attractive) team
member speaking to her team about 'feet' and 'half a foot' regar
Thank you, John, for this update on the hodge-podge of package sizes in Canada.
Given the dictates of inventory management (and the fact that most consumers
simply "eyeball" the size of a package), I am quite certain that most (and
eventually all) manufacturers in the USA (in addition to those
On Saturday 27 February 2010 12:00:28 John M. Steele wrote:
> *"Naked number" conversion: The pilot used the number 1.77 to convert
> between liters and kilograms. The correct density is 0.803 kg/L. The
> "naked figure" 1.77 is correctly the conversion between liters and pounds,
> 1.77 lb/L.
Dear All,
Does anyone know when babies were first measured in metric units?
I suppose that this might have begun in places such as France and the
Netherlands in the early 1800s – but specifically when?
Also when was the first use of metric units for babies:
in the USA?
in the UK?
Cheers,
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