[ RadSafe ] PSU Roundtable Update

[Thomas Johnston]

Only the US, Burma and Liberia have not officially adopted the SI system!
Go figure.

Regards,
Thomas Johnston

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Franz Schönhofer <
franz.schoenhofer at chello.at> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> May I help you to understand the outdated oldfashioned scientific units
> which are still used in some underdeveloped and retarded countries. (This
> is close to the wording of the military US genius Rumsford or similary who
> accused Austria to be on that level, when we did not officially allow
> USmilitary aircrafts to fly over Austrian territory on their way from
> Germany to the near east war scenario. Why should we break our constitution
> because a US secretary of war (sorry - defence) wants to save a little fuel
> for his airplanes? Never mind, they traversed Austria anyway and showed the
> well known principle of the right of the strong......)
>
> Back from politics to scientific units. As a regular user of SI-units I
> would still guess that the units were "Fahrenheit", its very funny history
> can be looked up on Wikipedia. Even funnier is the unit "Reaumur". We
> should be happy to have "universal" units, known all over the world and
> being the same in any country or society - unless there is a specific
> country which wants to demonstrate how special and superior it is over all
> other ones. I'll write another comment to the discussion about USA and SI
> units.
>
> Today I am inclined to joke - I celebrate my 72nd birthday..........
>
> Best wishes
>
> Franz
>
> --Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Dan McCarn
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 9:03 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] PSU Roundtable Update
>
> Jeff -
>
> Those mid-60s and mid-s 70s.... Does that refer to age?
>
> Dan ii
>
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> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Jeff Leavey <certhp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The Penn State Roundtable is coming up quickly and the conference web page
>> has been updated with the latest technical agenda and the social agenda.
>> Please go to http://ehs.psu.edu/radiation-safety-roundtable for the
>> latest
>> info.
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark Linsley (mark at trgroupinc.com) is arranging for Sunday golf so please
>> contact him directly if you wish to play.
>>
>>
>>
>> Weather for the conference week is looking like:
>>
>> Sunday – low 70’s daytime and chance of rain and mid-40’s Sunday night
>>
>> Monday – upper 60’s day time, partly cloudy and clear at 40’s Monday night
>>
>> Tuesday – upper 60’s and sunny and clear and upper 40’s at night
>>
>> Wednesday – mid 60’s and sunny and low 40’s at night.
>>
>>
>>
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