= Сообщение: 4826 из 12549 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Robert Bashe 2:2448/44 24 Apr 17 08:37:46 Кому : BjФrn Felten 24 Apr 17 08:37:46 Тема : Brexit, It giet oan! FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:2448/44+58fd9fc5 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+58fce934 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== ============================================================================== BjФrn Felten wrote to David Rance on Sunday April 23 2017 at 19:49:
BF> Totally unrelated, but one thing that for many years has confused me BF> is why the UK so long refused to go metric.
My guess is because they had so many dealings with the USA and thus tried to avoid confusion between metric and the US system. That could be a real catastrophe in certain situations - remember the moon (or mars - I don't remember exactly) landing that crashed into the planet instead of landing softly because the engineers in charge had confused kilometers with miles?
Of course, there's also the problem that people don't like to change what they're used to. I still translate prices from Euro into DM, and am shocked to see the rate of inflation Germany has experienced since 2002. Nowadays it seems that DM 0,15 = 1 Euro. People talking about "cheap" cars and computers having prices 3-4 times as high as in DM times also depress me.
BF> And when you did, some half a century ago, why are you still talking BF> about miles, Fahrenheit and so on?
Do they? Miles I could understand. I still know what a mile is. Fahrenheit would be more problematic. I know that 212°F is 100°C, but that's about all I remember. All depends on what you're used to, I guess.
BF> All European countries went metric more than a century ago, so what BF> caused the UK to drag her feet along for this long?
