Until the following happens in this country, things that affect everyday life and not behind-the-scenes manufacturing, I don’t think we are a whole lot on the way at all:
People measured in kg and m Gasoline sold by the liter Roads marked in km – only Speedometers in cars showing km – only Food in the stores sold in g and kg only – not lb, and all remaining liquid food like milk in liters and ml only A steak on a restaurant menu showing mass in grams and not ounces etc. Until then the average Joe Sixpak will never think anything has happened. Carleton From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of cont...@metricpioneer.com Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 16:39 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:54353] Re: Good Question: Why are speed limits posted in kilometers? Martin Morrison. I agree with what you say. But I find it a bit strange that most people in this group still call it the Metric System, when we really should be using the current name. The eleventh CGPM (Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures = General Conference on Weights and Measures) in 1960 faced the question of what to call this new reorganization and extension of measures. The name Metric System had referred to the units for length and mass. What the CGPM had created was much more comprehensive, and after some discussion, this new system was called the International System of units or SI after its French initials. For the first time, the world had not merely universal units, but a universal system of units. The Metric System became the International System the same year I was born, 1960, and after 54 years, you still refer to SI by its old name. It is beyond me! Does anyone want to justify using the old name? ----- Message from c...@traditio.com <mailto:c...@traditio.com> --------- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 12:44:54 -0700 (PDT) From: c...@traditio.com <mailto:c...@traditio.com> Reply-To: c...@traditio.com <mailto:c...@traditio.com> Subject: [USMA:54351] Re: Good Question: Why are speed limits posted in kilometers? To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu <mailto:usma@colostate.edu> > "Typically, we don't see the metric system in use here in the U.S." This statement in the article indicates why we need to do a much better job of public education and stop talking about "converting" to the metric system and instead talking about "completing" metrication. The metric system is already 50% here. It is used in medicine, pharmacy, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, light bulbs, power, radioactivity, and many other industries, while it is making headroads into other industries like food, where new products are often hard-sized to metric quantities. I argue that the U.S. is no more "non-metric" than Canada and England, for example, which countries have not completed their metrication either. Let's stop talking about the U.S. being the only non-metric country in the world along with two unknown little countries. We're on the way to complete metrication, just like certain other countries that haven't gotten there yet. Martin Morrison "Metric Today" Columnist ============ On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, cont...@metricpioneer.com <mailto:cont...@metricpioneer.com> wrote: Good Question: Why are speed limits posted in kilometers? http://www.nbc-2.com/story/24077659/good-question-why-are-speed-limits-posted-in-kilometers ----- End message from c...@traditio.com <mailto:c...@traditio.com> -----
