Subject: metric system
From: ACRE NL
Date: 8/20/2001, 7:08 PM

DENIS SMITH wrote:

I guess the real issue is that whatever we use we
should stick with it.  Ask the guys that landed the
planetary probe many feet/meters below the surface
because they weren't sure whether to use feet or
meters.  A kings foot?  Wonder where the meter came
from.  Someone with a longer arm than the king??

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