Come on Jim wake up and smell the 21st century. Moon landings for christs sake - many of those up here were't even born. Though a wholesale US change to metric is unrealistic ( most US citizens being too dumb to be able to figure it out - troll ), I recon you are up to the challenge. At least if there was only one system NASA might be able to hit a planet instead of the CF that they just had. Paul...( yea we drive on the left, but my missus gets it wrong 40% of the time anyhow ;).... At 22:06 02/09/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Screw the rest of the world. The rest of the world should be following *our* >lead and drop the metric system. > >I'll tell you what, when one of you metric sons of bitches land on the moon >with a metric spaceship, then I'll switch. > > Jim Paul R Carre (Design Engineer) Polar Instruments Ltd Guernsey, Channel Islands email: <paul.carre@Po*.co*> Tel: + 44 1481 253081 Fax: + 44 1481 252476 www.PolarInstruments.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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