Hi, everyone, In October 1976 the American National Metric Council sent a delegation to Europe to discuss metrication with various parties. NASA’s member of the group wrote a report after meeting with representatives of the British Standards Institution and the British Metrication Board and representatives of the British and German aerospace industries.
His report is a PDF download of 4.3 MB and is quite clear and concise - 9 pages. http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770008274.pdf <http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19770008274.pdf> Some key points from the report: Section II 1. Metrication must begin with the announcement at the topmost level (e.g, government, corporation, industry, company etc.) of the policy to convert to the metric system. 3. Metrication touches upon everyone. It is an across-the-board problem. It is also an opportunity to discard the unneeded and improve the ongoing. 9. The British felt that their failure to enact legislation that would make use of the metric system mandatory, and establish a series of "M" (Metrication) days was a serious error. This has been costly in resources and effort and has protracted the completion of their metrication program. I found the report in an article in The Spectator titled Imperial or Metric? Why can’t we have both? and arguing for worsening the British muddle of measurements. It’s here if you can’t live without it: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/imperial-metric-cant/ <http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/imperial-metric-cant/> The Spectator article and a link to the NASA report have been posted to Reddit, and comments will be here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Metric/comments/50fr66/imperial_or_metric_why_cant_we_have_both_the/ <https://www.reddit.com/r/Metric/comments/50fr66/imperial_or_metric_why_cant_we_have_both_the/> Best wishes from sunny Australia, Peter Goodyear [email protected] PS: It used to cost 3ドル.50. Now it’s free.
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