Philosophy
I use the "metric" system...
All the time...1
Never...1
Infrequently...1
I have forgotten how many years ago that the Federal Government mandated the introduction of the "metric system". It is still around on many products but it has failed: Restraining orders are measured in feet, weather persons always use Fahrenheit, gasoline is sold by gallons, and meat, fruit, and vegetables are sold by the pound. And the NFL will never use the metric system.
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Philosophy
"Metric System" poll
I use the "metric" system...
All the time...1
Never...1
Infrequently...1
I have forgotten how many years ago that the Federal Government mandated the introduction of the "metric system". It is still around on many products but it has failed: Restraining orders are measured in feet, weather persons always use Fahrenheit, gasoline is sold by gallons, and meat, fruit, and vegetables are sold by the pound. And the NFL will never use the metric system.
- Vanadium...from $4,000 To $1.80/pound...thanks To Mining At Minas Ragra, Peru
Minasragrite Workers near Minas Ragra. Ore mined in Peru was sent 3,800 miles to a U.S. smelting plant via llama, train, and ship. "The Rocks at the Top of the World" by Atsushi Gomi and Robert D. Whetham Chemical Heritage Foundation For almost 100...
- Emergency Alert System (eas)...november 9th, 2011
At the Federal Communications Commission's June 9, 2011 Agenda meeting, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Chief Jamie Barnett, joined by representatives from FEMA and the National Weather Service, announced that the first nationwide test...
- "persistence In Kerr Metrics"--andrea Attili
More representation of the fusion of science and art through Andrea Attili's Persistence in Kerr Metrics [2007]. Kerr metric: In general relativity, the Kerr metric (or Kerr vacuum) describes the geometry of spacetime around a rotating massive body....
- No To Yucca Mountain Repository
Dear Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama: Please read the following before you make commitments to nuclear plant construction involving "fission" reactors. Sink promises and funds into "fusion" research and development and alternate energy sources. The estimated...
- Toxic Waste
What a problem. What do we do with it? The dreams of the 1950’s whereby we envisioned a society run with cheap and abundant fuel has somewhat been tarnished by Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Susquehanna River accident [1979], the Chernobyl accident...