Gene wrote " Teradollars in oil revenues can subsidize many things besides terrorism! It would be wonderful if we could recruit a Saudi prince to fund metrication. Do we know any Saudi prince who was educated in science or engineering in the US, who now has even mere G$ for worthy cause" Some observations * If we can use terms like teradollars or gigadollars, then we can use gigatons and megatons as well to indicate the output of coal, oil, natural gas, etc instead of billion and million tons. Similarly the output of goods & services can be measured as megacars, gigatickets, teraliters etc. * We should look for a Saudi Prince who is educated in science / engineering in Europe and not in US, so that he will use 100 % SI (an American educated will mix up both). * I don?t think an Arab will spend money for metricating the US which is much more richer than Saudi Arabia. So we have to get some Hollywood artists who can throw G$ for our cause. Madan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jim Elwell wrote: > My secretary ... purchased for me a 375 mL can of pop ... > canned in Saudi Arabia ... > ... > P.S. What a world we live in where someone can economically bottle > soda pop then ship it half way around the world and sell it! And the main content is probably energy-expensive desalinated holy water. Teradollars in oil revenues can subsidize many things besides terrorism! It would be wonderful if we could recruit a Saudi prince to fund metrication. Do we know any Saudi prince who was educated in science or engineering in the US, who now has even mere G$ for worthy causes?
