Re: [nas] Donovan on SI cover this week

[ron <billomac@earthlink.net>]

Title: Re: [nas] Donovan on SI cover this week

> In a message
> dated 6/19/02 2:30:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> billomac@earthlink.net writes:
> > GIVE ME THE
> > METRIC SYSTEM !!!!!
> As I said to Yanqui Sammer in e-mail, neither system is superior,
> it's a personal choice, and right now far more Americans are
> comfortable w/ the English system so the English system stays. 
> If there ever comes a day where more Americans are comfortable with
> the metric system, I'll be the first one to say we should adopt
> itt.
>
> We can't have a situation like in Britain a few years ago, where the
> government (kowtowing to socialist EU bureaucrats) forced the metric
> system upon a public that didn't want it.
>
>
> Alex

That is not right. Science uses the metric system.

It is only because Americans insist on a length that is a defined as i.e. an inch, and they think of it as 2.54 centimeters.

To change, you have to let go of the unmanageable inches and ounces. You actually have to think in metric.

It is just like learning a language. You don't really know it unless you manage to think in that language without having to translate.

-----Ron

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