[ RadSafe ] SI units (was Oregon..etc)

[Perle, Sandy]

Franz and Mike and others are correct. The time to start the transition is
now. It's all about educating the incoming physicists. Perhaps it's too
late for the "old-timers", but attrition takes care of that!

Regards,

Sandy

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On 3/26/11 8:42 AM, "Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin at Vanderbilt.Edu>
wrote:

>Franz wrote:
>
>>I really have a wish, connected to radiation protection: The whole world
>>is learning English, but the USA is still sticking to radiation units
>>being more than outdated in almost all of what US-hardliners call "rest
>>of the world". The USA will soon be the only country in this world using
>>them.
>
>Perfect!!! Hear, hear! I used to show a graph of the worldwide 'iron
>triangle" of protection against SI units, which included the US, Liberia
>and Burma. Now it is just a point of fortified resistance, here in the
>US, which is utterly ridiculous and nonscientific and must end. People
>complain that it's too hard, we can't learn it (of course while saying we
>can do anything else in the world). But every American can answer
>instantly if a 2 liter bottle of soda is about right or too much for one
>person to drink during dinner, right? Gy, Sv, Bq, it's not that hard,
>people and we look quite silly for not trying. As Franz notes, almost
>everywhere I go in the world, people speak English, along with their
>native languages, and often one or two more. You can learn to speak SI,
>get some dang Rosetta Stone DVDs if you have to.
>
>
>Mike
>
>Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
>Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
>Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
>Vanderbilt University
>1161 21st Avenue South
>Nashville, TN 37232-2675
>Phone (615) 343-4628
>Fax   (615) 322-3764
>e-mail     michael.g.stabin at vanderbilt.edu
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