The problem with the argument re people approaching the metric table, of
course, is that the people who do so were undoubtedly those who were
interested in the subject and likely to be pro-metric.  I've worked
environmental tables and--guess what?--the people who stop are those
interested in environmental progress.  Those who aren't just drift by.

HARRY WYETH


Subject: [USMA:31661] letter to Astronomy magazine


>>         NIST here in Boulder held a 50-year festival
>         this summer.  I worked the metric table all
>         day at which I asked âDo you want the US to
>         change to metric use?â  Hundreds of people
>         said Yes.  Only one person said No.
>
>

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