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OK, this is the type of thing I always write when I return to this list after a long absence which is usually inspired by the technical nitpicking I usually read on here, and you will nitpick me again, and I will leave again, but I will always return. I've been returning to this issue for 28 years, and I will continue with it ...
I could pick on your assertions about the Constitution and Congress and a Metric Board, etc., but we've been over that ground.
Rather, in reference to:
Meanwhile, we have built a national infrastructure which is almost exclusively dependent upon WOMBAT.
I'm just going to protest that you are way too pessimistic. What about our military, which has converted to the metric system? What about our car manufacturers (GM, Ford, etc.) that have converted to the metric system? What about our electrical infrastructure, which has always been metric (watts, volts, etc.)?
The fact is that this country is FAR more metric today than it was 28 years ago. Yes, we have a long ways to go, but I think those highway mileage signs may be the last vestige of colloquial measurements to disappear.
I've said this before, but it strikes me again: the other group I am involved with (the Libertarian Party) is inhabited by lots of pessimists, and I sometimes join them, as our battle for freedom in this country is further eroded with every dollar the fedgov extracts from the working populace and spends on some special interest group, and there is no end in sight.
Relative to that, U.S. metrication is a wonderful, positive, progressive task! We WILL win! We ARE winning!
Electrical Engineer
Industrial manufacturing manager
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
www.qsicorp.com
