Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Terribly careless of them, even so! Tim A > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of A.H.SCHMIDT > Sent: September 30, 1999 8:09 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Americans? > > > > > Tim Atherton wrote: > > > Over on the RASC List, there are slew of puling Canadians > > > bitching because the US hasn't adopted the metric system. What > > > business is > > > it of theirs whether we do so or nay? None. Zilcho. > > > > Marc, > > > > is that because NASA just lost it's $125 million mars probe because they > > didn't know their metres from their feet and inches? ;-) > > > > Tim A > > > > (who grew up learning there were 12 pennies in a shilling and > 20 shillings > > in a Pound) > > Tim, Its because the Americans are the only once to have a mars > probe. If > you don't have one, you can't loose one. > > Regards, Horst Schmidt > > > >