Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] conversion

["Mike Orsay" <homeworld_general@hotmail.com>]

i would love to see the US turn metric (one less thing for me to learn in 
school lol), but there is one problem.  the incredible amount of money that 
would take.  just to change the signs on the road would take at the very 
LEAST several hundred million.  not to mention the complexities of changing 
signs on a highway.  just a thought
Mike


>From: emm03@mirapoint.uow.edu.au
>Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] conversion
>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:37:25 +1000
>
>Sure, but why include an extra lines of code to convert Kelvin
>into farenheit to make it palateable to people who are not
>engineers?
>It makes more sense to discontinue the antiquated and
>illogical imperial (US) system. There are no other countries
>that officially use this system!
>
>Its the goverments fault right?
>E.
>
>---- Original message ----
> >Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 19:12:08 -0600
> >From: David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>
> >Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] conversion
> >To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> >
> >
> >On Tuesday, Dec 3, 2002, at 18:35 US/Central,
> >emm03@mirapoint.uow.edu.au wrote:
> >
> >> I agree!, I think the US should adopt the metric system..it
> >> would make it so much easier to talk with the rest of the
> >> world about science/engineering/technology/life in
>general!!
> >> E.M.
> >>
> >
> >I'm scared of engineers who can't convert simple units...
> >
> >
> >David
> >buchner@wcta.net
> >Osage, MN, USA
> >http://customer.wcta.net/buchner
> >
> >


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