Date:         Thu, 16 Dec 1999 22:31:43 MST
Reply-To:     Wally Schneider <wallysch@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Wally Schneider <wallysch@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: SI vs. dumb (0 cc's Vanagon content)
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Hi

You are right.  Habits are very hard to change.  Can you imagine the USA
going for degrees Celcius instead of Fahrenheit? Who has ever heard of water
freezing at 0 degrees and boiling at 100 degrees.  We all know it freezes at
32 and boils at 212, it always has and always will.   What will those metric
commies foist upon us next? A litre of water has a mass of 1 kg and the same
volume as 1000 cubic centimeters.  Why we all know that a quart of water has
a mass of 0.06484577 slugs and the same volume as 57.75 cubic inches.  Any
student in high school can tell you that.   Did we not send men to the moon
first, put a telescope into space and sent various space probes into space?
Some of them are still flying.  Lets keep it this way.  Who can remember all
them ones and tens anyhow?
I ain't voting for somebody who wants to bring this stuff here.  Thats fer
sure.

Wally
85 Westy

>
>   Sorry but I think your in a specialty here. I would like to see anyone
>on the list here go into there local home center, and ask for a
>  101.6mmx50.8mmx2438.4mm. Otherwise known as a 2x4 - 8 foot long!


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