Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 08/09/2010 03:34 AM, Jeff Moore wrote: > While I don't want the world to be boringly culturally homogeneous, > there are some things we should all just get with the program on: > > > - Use the metric system, dammit. > > Metric? We might as well dissolve the NFL and watch guys in shorts maneuvering black and white Archimedean Buckyballs using only their feet. :-) But any American born in the 1960s should remember this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metric_Marvels The article closes: "Ultimately, /The Metric Marvels/ failed to convince Americans to convert to the metric system. ... Americans largely ignored governmental attempts to push them in the direction of metrication, and the USMB [ (U.S. Metric Board <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Metric_Board>) ] was eventually disbanded in 1982 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982>." -rei (the ugly american, whose favorite lens is the 1.97 inch noctilux)