I was on the USMA site on the page 'Published articles about metric - 2009' and found this:
Metric is no way to measure By Glynn Moore| Columnist Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, 2009-Mar-16, 1p., Moore,G.; Metric is no way to measure. [http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/03/16/moo_514811.shtml] I can hardly believe that an intelligent person can spout such trash. All the old scare mongering canards are back again like: A body temperature of 37.77 degrees, converted from 101.8 degrees Fahrenheit - too accurate. A weatherman predicting 26.7 C = 80 degrees Fahrenheit. That is new to me: nature has standardized the weather to the Fahrenheit scale (and I also suppose to the inHg and the inch of precipitation). Using metric the weatherman would predict 27 degrees of course. A speed limit of 55 mph equates to 88 km/h. In metric it would be 90 km/h. "As globalization continues, a football field is destined to become 91.44 meters long". Of course, if American football should go metric one day, it would be wile to move to a 100 m field. Although soccer still uses soft converted measurements. Not one valid argument against metric, just garbage. Maybe is this supposed to be funny. Han
