"Don A. Gilmore" wrote: > The industrial infrastructure of the United States is old and vast and is > made up of an almost unbelievable amount of machinery that lasts for many, > many years and has to be > maintained and modified regularly. To simply foist the Metric System on our > society > and decree that it shall be universal, for what appear to be purely > anal-retentive reasons, is silly. It would only prove to have detrimental > effects for > decades with utterly miniscule, inconsequential advantages. Sort of like what the Sweeds were saying for years in their debate about changing which side of the street they should drive on... when it came down to the day... it all went smooth as a babies behind... no mass collisions... no problems with cars being changed out over time... no real problems at all... and made things much easier for all who traveled in and out of the country. Going to metric isnt a life or death thing... it will just make it easier for everyone to converse in the same language as it were... and to produce parts that work just about everywhere... and that kind of thing. The process would probably stimulate the economy (temporarilly in anycase) as well rather then be a detriment. If the states made the change... then once again human kind would simply display its amazing ability to adapt.... as it always does :) Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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