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    "sender_name": "Tony Langdon",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT-NA totally metric?",
    "date": "2007-01-21T02:16:33Z",
    "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/OI7S73QSXV4HZ6PBFTEUPEVY737TLS2Y/?format=api",
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    "content": "At 06:48 AM 1/21/2007, you wrote:\n\n>Here is an excerpt on the Canadian metric conversion experience. \n>Still today we\n>tend to convert to the old english system (old generation) but the new\n>generation are fully imbedded in the SI system.\n\nConversion was pretty painless in Australia.  I recall the latter \nyears of dual measurements, just before we went metric \nonly.  Nowadays, everyone uses metric for weather related parameters, \ntemperature, wind speed, pressure.  For everyday use, most people use \nmetric or a mix of metric and the older units in everyday \nconversation.  I am well versed in both systems, because of the time \nI grew up with and a natural aptitude for dealing with different \nmeasurements, and these days, I can do a lot of common conversions in \nreal time in my head (as reasonably close approximations).\n\n\n>The harder part is the temperature system and the volume measures. A big plus\n>it is a decimal based system no more 1/64 1/32 and so on odd fraction. As in\n>Asterix a small village still resist the conversion...\n\nTemperature seemed to be easier here, one rarely hears anyone use \nFarenheit here.  Volume has some lingering artefacts (e.g. people \nstill speak of \"44 gallon drums\", not \"205 litre drums\").\n\n\n>I remember the advertisement campaign at that time \"don't convert \n>think metric\"\n>easier to say than doing.\n\nI can still think in terms of either system directly, without having \nto convert. :)\n\nIn any case, when it comes to mathematical purposes, SI units are \nmuch easier to deal with - less oddball constants that have to be \nthrown into equations.  I'm glad my university days were long after \nconversion to SI here. :-)  And the speed of light happens to be a \nmuch nicer constant to work with (for calculating propagation delays \nand wavelengths).  300,000,000 m/s is much easier than 186,000 \nmiles/sec for quick mental calculations! ;)\n\n73 de VK3JED\nhttp://vkradio.com\n\n",
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