And in yesterday's installment Dr. Fay commented on being covered in
"centimeters of goo" after walking through a swamp.
>From my listening today the FFUs were only at the introduction and end when
Alex C. said the trek was 12,500 miles (a coversion from 20000 km?). Alex
Chadwick even used kilometers yesterday and then miles and then ? Made my
head spin a bit. Today he did not interupt with conversions for the walking
distances in km and the mountain heights in meters. That was nice.
This trek is sponsored in part by National Geographic, so by the time it
hits their magazine we know what units it will be in.
You can listen to it at the NPR.ORG website.
Scott C
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Norman Werling
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 5:17 AM
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Cc: US Metric Assn.
> Subject: [USMA:8650] Trek through the Gobanese Forest
>
>
> Morning Edition NPR:
>
> The scientist who was reporting from site used kilometers for distance and
> meters for all mountain heights this morning on the report which
> I heard at
> about 07:45 EDT.
>
> However, Alex Chadwick saw fit to use the antiquated unit "miles"
> in all of
> his references to what he heard from the person who is really on site in
> Gabon.
>
> Why translate to miles, a WOMBAT (Way Of Measuring Badly in America Today)
> term? Why translate to miles, a King George III term (referring
> to the time
> period from which America's measurements still date)? Why translate to
> miles, a FFU (Fred Flintstone Unit which is only worth being considered as
> being from that ancient mythical time)?
>
> I expect a lot more from NPR and find it very hard to donate to the
> affiliates of an organization which perpetuates such obsolete
> nonsense. But
> for the fact that the networks force even more drivel upon us, I wouldn't.
>
> Norman Werling
> 1240 Hunters Drive
> Stone Mountain, GA 30083
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