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RE: Let's hear it for SI units!
Let's see . . . the "only remaining holdout" just happens to also be the
only remaining superpower in the world. Could there be a connection?
Or, as my mother was fond of saying when I wanted to do something
everyone else was doing, "If everybody else jumped off a cliff, would
you jump off the cliff, too?"
Les Aldrich
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> From: Gibbs, S Julian [SMTP:s.julian.gibbs@vanderbilt.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 11:40 AM
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> Subject: Let's hear it for SI units!
>
> Three cheers for Otto! It is incomprehensible that the U.
> S. is the only remaining holdout for traditional radiation
> units. The whole world has gone SI. Even the staid
> British have done it. Even obscure third world countries
> have done it. I thought my home town in rural Alabama was
> backward--but it is no more so than some in the scientific
> community who refuse to accept change. Now if we could
> just do the same with metrification of our obsolete system
> of weights and measures...
>
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