-----Original Message----- From: The_Toadman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 2001-01-15 08:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Andy did not make the S.O.B. comment [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America] Sorry, Andy -- I know you didn't make the SOB comment. I replied to the wrong message. Regardless of Dems and Repubs, the issue of this forum is how to get the US into full metrication. By this I mean not just converting conventional US measurements into their metric equivalent, but using the metric system as the primary system of weights and measures. "Converting" conventional measures to metric is not the answer. This just fosters the "mental mathematics" exercises of converting from one to the other. We need to start THINKING in metric. As an example, a conventional 2x4 piece of lumber (not now actually 2" x 4", but 1-5/8" x 3-5/8" -- I think) "converted" to metric is about 4.1 cm x 9.2 cm. If we were to think metric, we would make a 4x10, or maybe a 5x10 piece of wood, which makes a lot more sense. The problem arises is in the transition period when we would have both "new" and "old" sizes of everything. It's going to be a problem, but it's one that we have already partially faced (and solved) and one that we are eventually going to have to face (like Social Security reform). As an example of where we have already converted, look at a modern day automobile engine. Virtually all of the bolts and nuts are metric. It's here and it won't go away. We need to embrace the metric system so that we can be in step with the rest of the world. --------------------------------------------- DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! --------------------------------------------- You have chosen to receive messages from "Metric America" by email. Reply to this message: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=metricamerica &sid=12177109&mid=890 Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica/config/change_mb_list Return to "Metric America": http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricamerica ---------------------------------------------- Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=millitesla&.g roupID=metricamerica&.groupType=&.code=kqkKEmys7C
