You’ve never spent a week on the Talmadge Circle by Akron Ohio then. Put
fifteen miles on the car before I finally figured out how to get off that thing
Mike, WB8VGE
Mike Bryce, WB8VGE
the heathkit shop
SunLight energy systems
J e e p
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> On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:35 PM, Gary J FollettDukes HiFi <dukeshifi@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> Well, a little fairy tale never hurt anyone.
>
> There is no justifiable reason for the USA to remain with the antiquated BSA
> standard.
>
> However, in reality, there is, sadly, some portion of the population that
> thinks the fact that the rest of the world uses the metric system is the
> reason why we should NOT use it.
>
> That would be admitting that someone outside USA has a better idea.
>
> Believe it or not, there are even folks here who rant about an occasional
> roundabout on the roadways, when they are the very most efficient way to move
> traffic, far better than our old stand by, the 4 way stop sign, whose only
> purpose is to impede traffic flow equally in all directions.
>
> Let’s see how simple this is: inches can be either divided by tenths,
> thousands and millionths etc., or 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, and so on. Then
> there are 12 inches per foot. Three feet to the yard. 5280 feet to the mile
> (unless you are talking nautical mile (6070 feet).
>
> Certainly the metric system is much more difficult - 1 micron, 1 mm, 1 cm, 1
> dm, 1 m, 1 km and so on… pretty tough math!!!
>
> Gary
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