I read an article a few years ago that the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota went fully metric because there were too many conversion errors. I wonder how it is working for them and how it affects record transfers and communications with other hospitals not fully metric. Somewhere this has to cause errors too. All medical data must be metric only. This would reduce lawsuits from errors too.

What you are doing is not an answer and could create as many problems as it solves. Doctors must be forced to use metric on all patients. When it comes to matters of life and death there can be no choices or dual units. Metric units fully and only. Those patients who still want old units should be told why metric only is required and if they need old units, then convert them themselves.

The medical industry is still not fully metric. Patient weights are still being done in pounds. This results in tens of thousands of patients being murdered annually due to dosing errors. Pounds must be converted to kilograms in order for the proper dose to be given, but if it isn’t done at all nor done correctly then a huge dosing error and death result. This alone should motivate change.

Here is another website dedicated to advocating metrication from President-Elect Obama:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/MetricSystemAdvocates

In order for SI to be compulsory, Congress must first fix the standard and make SI the ONLY legal system. All pre-SI units must be made non-legal so their use or abuse becomes unsupported by the government. All legal conversion factors between SI and pre-SI would be removed and pre-SI units would becomes just words with no measurement value. A CTO can work with Congress to make this happen.

The only two words in the rhyme that do rhyme are nice and ice. Warm can be thought of as nice. Therefore why not reword your rhyme to: 30 is hot, 20 is nice, 10 is cool, 0 is ice. This way it is more true to form.

I think that most people would agree that 30 is hot and not warm. We can even extend the range to 40 being sweltering and 50 being the limit of human endurance. The point is that every 10°C is a different category of heat.

Tymes comment that people would understand a 1°C change in temperature by what it means is Fahrenheit is nonsense. Milliards of people worldwide use Celsius everyday and don’t even know what a Fahrenheit is. For those who pretend not to know Celsius there are easy ways to learn it and relate the numbers to real events, like 0 is freezing, 10 is cool, 20 is warm, 30 is hot, 37 is body temp, etc.

The comment by nc50 shows how really stupid some people can be. If football ever changed to metric it can either go to a 100 m field with 10 m per down or to a 90 m field with 9 m per down. A 90 m field would be shorter by 1.44 m and each down by 144 mm. The change would be unnoticeable. A 100 m field would be larger by 10 m but maybe too large to fit in existing field space.

I believe America’s present economic woes go back to the Regan era. Industry wanted to metricate but the population didn’t. Regan allowed industry to produce its goods in the metric world and import the goods back into the US at the expense of the American worker. Goods once produced in the US in dinosaur units are now produced elsewhere in metric. To undo the damage America must metricate.

I believe America’s present economic woes go back to the Regan era. Industry wanted to metricate but the population didn’t. Regan allowed industry to produce its goods in the metric world and import the goods back into the US at the expense of the American worker. Goods once produced in the US in dinosaur units are now produced elsewhere in metric. To undo the damage America must metricate.

If the US can create 700 G$ out of thin air to bail out wall street, then it can create whatever is needed the same way to pay for metrication.