Regan Measurement

During the presidential administration of Jimmy Carter the United States of  America started to convert to the metric system as it sole unit of measurement.  Technically the United States of  America has been on the metric system for a long time since 1 inch = 2.54 centimeters exactly and the formerly called "English System" of measurement is defined in terms of  primary metric measurements.  Since the "English System" has been largely repudiated and abandoned by the English and since calling it the "Stupid American Measurement System" is  insulting to Americans, it is proposed that the formerly called "English System" of weights and measures be named after the great American president who nixed our conversion to the metric system, Ronald Regan.  A more polite way to describe the "U.S. Customary Units" can be found the Wikpedia, the free encyclopedia here. Since many other things have been named after this great American, lets name something after him that he actually had something to do with.  Ronald Regan did not feel comfortable with the metric system, or understand it, so he advocated keeping inchs, yards, feet, miles, and pounds.  We have already lost one spacecraft to Mars because of improper conversion form metric units used by scientist to the "Regan Units of Measure."  We should not live in an SI, Standard International, unit of measurement world in the United States of America.   All people should be encouraged to make as many unit conversions as possible so they can recognize the arbitrariness of most unit of measurement.  Let Polytropic units were K=G=M=1 reign (To learn more than you probably want to know about Polytropic units and their conversion to other units look at the appendix in Williams, H.A., Tohline, J.E., Linear and Nonlinear Dynamic Instability of Rotating Polytropes, The Astrophysical Journal (1987) vol. 315, pp. 594--601.), or Planck units where G=ħ=c=1 (actually these are the only units that may not be arbitrary, but are in some sense fundamental to the way the universe is structured. See the Wikipedia, the free Encyclopidia artilce here.) be used with abandon for convenience of calculation and may "Regan Units" flourish, too, so we do not have to yield to the tyranny of SI units.

Written partially tough in check, hay that is where my tough always is, by Dr. Harold Williams at 5:02PM on January 16, 2006.