I was in school back when the big switch to metric was supposed to take place, and I remember people wandering around grumbling about how they weren't gonna let any European pansies tell them how to measure, or some such drivel.... Sigh, sometimes it's hard to be an American, that's for sure. The whole thing blew up for the most art due to our stubbornness. I can totally get on board with things being done in the metric system, it makes truly beautiful sense. Luckily, I can do some basic converting to at least get a ballpark idea of what someone is talking about. And yes, totally awesome picture. On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
On 08 Dec 2012, at 14:05, Joe Bauman wrote:
Hi Gang, Patrick Wiggins has the EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day)!
Thanks Joe. Much appreciated.
The only thing wrong with it is the rest of us, that is regular Americans, don't know what he's talking about with all that stuff about 1,000 m and 225 m
While I know you're kidding, it is a bit disturbing to think that in a recent Harvard study of kids in 34 first-world countries American students ranked 25th in math and 17th in science.
I wont go so far as to blame it all on how we measure but let's face it, by shackling our kids with a measuring system not used by 90+ percent of the world's population it's like setting them up to fail when they get out into the international world.
Clear skies!
patrick (whose car's license plate reads "METRIC")
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