Re: [OM] hike w/ pup

[Chuck Norcutt]

And they're still trying to figure out how long a meter is.  That 
platinum and iridium bar doesn't cut it any more.  :-)
Chuck Norcutt


On 8/31/2014 6:35 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 8/30/2014 5:18 PM, John Hudson wrote:
> > Feet and / or meters for land elevations ................. helps to
> > accommodate those few who have difficulty with a base 10 measuring
> > system.
> >
> > Does the US keep exclusively with miles, yards, feet and inches
> > because too many people have trouble grasping base 10 :-)
> No, but because we think the rationalism of the 18th. century French,
> high on revolution, went too far, resulting in a crock that denies the
> natural measures developed to human proportions over prior centuries.
>
> And it's nowhere near exclusive. The vast majority of manufacturing is
> metric, etc.
>
> Moose D'Opinion
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