02-03-2022, 04:30 AM
(02-03-2022, 03:21 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote:(02-03-2022, 02:21 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: I believe it was started under Jimmy Carter in 1977 or so. It's really hard to change a system that had been in place for so many years that so many people knew. The rest of the world would have the same problem if they tried to suddenly switch to our system.
Ha! I remember being in school in the '70s. There was a big "Hey, let's all get ready to transition to the metric system!" movement. We learned all about metrics, and I thought "Hey, this is easy, everything is a factor of 10."
Then I watched Bob and Doug comedy routines, and they made the translation easy. "How do you figure metric? Easy - take American, double it, and ad 30."
