Re: Daily physics
From: ZZBunker (zzbunker_at_netscape.net)
Date: 06/08/04
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Date: 7 Jun 2004 23:22:25 -0700
whopkins@csd.uwm.edu (Alfred Einstead) wrote in message news:<e58d56ae.0406071310.1696f0da@posting.google.com>...
> dcshead@charter.net (Donald G. Shead) wrote:
> > Except that the U.S. is still the biggest consumer
>
> No. The US is SI too. Inches, feet and miles (for instance)
> are SI units defined respectively as 2.54 cm, 30.48 cm and
> 1609.344 meters.
>
> The US is already metric, by default.
The US is not that metric.
The *nautical* mile is an SI unit.
The US mile is a country mile.
And it can be quite simply translated
into German, French, Japanese, Iraqi,
California, Chicago, New York,
and Florida SI units as:
BOMBS AWAY on MORONS.
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