Some time ago, probably more than 10 years now, I wrote to National
Geographic's top officer after being ignored many times by routine
"letters to the editor" on this subject. As I recall, I eventually even
had to make a phone call to indicate that I desired an actual response.
I did receive a reply after that, a rather snide and rude one.
Essentially the thrust of the reply was that Americans didn't understand
the metric system and wanted no part of it.
If I paid for my own NG subscription, I would have cancelled it. But my
folks give one to each of their children and it would hurt their
feelings to ask them to skip mine.
Enough time has elapsed that it probably would worthwhile making another
push on this topic. Good luck! The NGS has a Board of Governors. I
suggest a letter to each member. And it should be a real letter, not an
email! These are stodgy old coots we're dealing with here...
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
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On 2011-07-10 15:26, a-bruie...@lycos.com wrote:
Was at my mothers house where they had been getting National Geographic
Magazine, I was a bit surprised and disappointed, NGM does not support SI
anywhere in there articles at all. The only spot was the second page that was
advertisement for Canon Cameras, Canon would show case an animal with
description in Metric first followed by American Imperial units. Of all
magazines I thought for sure they of scientific mind would support SI. I was
wrong.
Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr
Erie PA
Linux and Metric User and Enforcer
I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy
have you collected today?
Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to
wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. --
Thomas Edison♽☯♑
