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You are right, but I wasn't talking about changing the whole country or even all diving, just the techdivers who want to make everything as safe as possible. Wendell "Aldo Solari [APS]" wrote: > > Wendel et al.: the main problem changing systems (from Imperial > to MKS, etc.) is the gigantic cost associated to an all out > change (industrial systems, tools, education, media and, most of > all, people's way of thinking). In a country such as the USA, it > would take years to carry out. Also, the Imperial system is quite > old and it is culturally loaded (not the least in the naval > environment). > > If the US Federal Gov decided to go MeterKiloSecond, we would > have Jim, Jack and CYoung in cammies resisting the "central > government" with tomahawks and bazookas :-) These guys are > dangerous: they already got garage plans to hijak a nuclear sub > :-) > > But HEY, keep the "pint": otherwise, how are we going to measure > the (Guiness) beer we have ? haha ... > > Cheers, > > ---- > aldo.solari@ho*.se* (fisheries biologist) > Home page, www.ccbb.ulpgc.es/fish-ecology/solaris > ---- > > wgrogan@dc*.ne* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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