If you ever see the tv show called "The Daily Show", they recently had
a feature titled "S*&t that isn't going to happen"; and the metric
system was on there.
It was hilarious, but the truth is, the USA 'established' the metric
system years ago, you just perhaps haven't seen it. Take apart some
of your car's engine, I don't care if it's American made or an import;
unless it's very old, the bolts are metric. That's just one example.
There are lots of other industrial and commercial uses that you may
not have noticed.
I'm 50 years old, and when I was a kid in elementary school over 40
years ago, we studied the metric system, as the "USA was going to
convert to it". While we typically see MPH speed signs, gallons of
milk and quarts of oil, most other things are already using the metric
system.
73 de W4AS
Sebastian
On May 4, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH) wrote:
> Joe - WDØM wrote:
>>
>> "Many years ago US Metric Association took a survey to determine
>> which
>> countries have /officially/ adopted the metric system. According to
>> that survey, the only other countries besides the U.S. that have not
>> /officially/ adopted the metric system are *Liberia* (in western
>> Africa) and *Burma* (also known as *Myanmar*, in Southeast Asia)."
>>
>> http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm
>>
>> I see the believers in non-metric standards are in good company
>> internationally.
>>
>
> On this matter, what happens in some other country is unimportant. I
> remember a number of years ago when there was a big push to force
> the US
> to convert to metric. It didn't happen, and isn't likely to.
> /Unofficially or officially, the people of this country didn't/don't
> want it. / This argument reminds me of the parent asking the child
> why
> he/she did a particular thing, and the child responds "well, Bobby did
> it". It would appear that the influence of the US Metric Association
> is
> insignificant at best.
>
> 73,
> Mike, W5UC
> "American by birth. Texan by the grace of God*
> http://www.the912project.com
> http://www.suddenlink.net/pages/w5uc/
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