Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just checked to see if a Centipede has 100 legs. They don't. They have 20 to 300. God is not on the metric system. As I cant find anything in nature in which there is a 100 of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:45:03 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Metric system > > The biggest missed opportunity in getting the U.S. to adopt the metric > system was the failure to establish 100 kph as the national speed limit > during the oil crisis of 1974. In the automotive world there are several > magic numbers. One of them is the 100 mark on speedometers. If all the road > signs had been changed to "Speed Limit 100 kph" no one would have realized > that it was only 7 mph faster than the almost pedestrian 55 mph actually > adopted. One hundred kph sounds fast. Fifty five mph sounds slow. > > > There is another potential opportunity right now. Gasoline should be sold > by > the liter rather than by the gallon. A $4 price for gas sounds like highway > robbery. A $1 price per liter sounds almost reasonable. That's much cheaper > than a Starbuck's Grande coffee. > > > By the way, anyone who does any mechanical work on automobiles already has > to have a full set of metric tools. > > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information