That's correct Wendell in my opinion, it would be just one less clusterf*ck to
compromise the safety of the dive. But do you think that all the hillbillies in
Florida will be able to work out the math? Funny thing is that they exported it
to Mexico too!.:-)


-----Original Message-----
From: "Wendell Grogan"<wgrogan@dc*.ne*>
To: "Aldo Solari [APS]"<aldo.solari@ho*.se*>
Cc: "techdiver@aquanaut.com"<techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Date: Tue Sep 04 04:00:41 PDT 2001
Subject: Re: Metric vs Imperial

>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*
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