The American public has resisted the metric system for decades, but that has not discouraged the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from sinking $37,950 into two more episodes of a “motion-comic” video series called “The League of SI Superheroes.” (SI stands for International System of Units, the modern metric system.)
According to the NIST, these “newest champions of measurement” have emerged “from their environmentally shielded headquarters around the globe,” and “are dedicated to the fight against uncertainty, imprecision and inaccuracy and to improving the quality of our lives and the things we build.” The first episode, posted on Youtube in May 2014, has drawn about 3,200 views in five months:
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