On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:49:35 GMT, lid (Goran Larsson) wrote:

In article ,
Alan Minyard wrote:

Statement 1:
Well, the US has, unquestionably, the most advanced scientific
system in the world, the US economy (GDP) is much larger than
any other, etc, etc.

Statement 2:
It does not appear that the unit of measure is
"broken".

There is no relation between these two statements. No one, not even
you, have a clue to what the US GDP would have been today if the US
had gone through with the decision to go metric.

What I am saying is that, if the countries that use the metric (misnomer)
system were so superior, they would be the leading economies, they
are not. If the US had "gone metric" there would have been significant
economic damage for a long period of time.

At one time gasoline stations sold fuel by the liter and speed limits
were posted in KPH. The citizens of the US did not like, and refused
to tolerate, such usages.

Al Minyard