Didn't one of the missions to Mars fail because some dodo used the English system while a programmer colleague used the metric system and their programs needed to work together- causing the mission to fail? Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: Will Blozan To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:21 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Red Oak in Halifax
Barry, What's not to like about the metric system? It is far superior to the crazy base-12 English system and is also virtually universal world-wide. We Americans are holding on to an archaic system that makes global communication ever more difficult. As a nation we should switch over and be done with it. My two-cents from a base-10 monetary system. Imagine counting pennies in twelves. Will ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Caselli Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: Red Oak in Halifax I hate the Metric System! Nice tree. Very impressive. We don't hear much about Canadian trees. Thanks, --- On Tue, 8/18/09, Mike Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mike Kowalski <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Red Oak in Halifax To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 7:18 AM ENTS, A friend of mine sent me this article about a month ago. The beginnings of some data on trees in Nova Scotia at least... I'll be in Halifax soon, so I'll probably go have a look for myself. http://dalnews.dal.ca/2009/07/09/tree.html Mike </table --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
