Metric Mickey, Congratulations on your pro-metric UK website. In this era, which we often call as the post-industrial age, an age of science, I find it baffling that your country retards, and my country resists, total adoption of the International System of Units as its measurement standard. I suspect that this may not be a purely scientific age after all, when people think that the customary "systems" of the UK and the US are "convenient". I often challenge my fellow countrymen to revive the pre-1971 British system of currency if they are so fond of such divisions, and they can't answer that with any degree of consistency. As you may know, the US lost a very costly spacecraft due to a duality of measurement units. As a pharmacist, I fear that there is much more at stake, with the possibility of people losing their lives because of a mix-up in pounds and kilograms, or (on a syringe scale) minims and millilitres. As with traffic lights, people must die before officialdom implements the controls. We shall have to wait and see. -- Paul Trusten, R.Ph. 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apt. 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 USA (915)-694-6208 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
