Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Fri, 2 Feb 90 10:48:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Fri, 2 Feb 90 10:48:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V11 #1 SPACE Digest Volume 11 : Issue 1 Today's Topics: Re: furlongs per fortnight in space ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 90 11:13 GMT From: ZDEE128%ELM.CC.KCL.AC.UK@vma.cc.cmu.edu Hello, Could you please send me future copies of the the space digest document, thank you. Julian Bean zdee128@uk.ac.kcl.elm ------------------------------ Date: 2 Feb 90 00:00:44 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!physics.utoronto.ca!neufeld@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Neufeld) Subject: Re: furlongs per fortnight in space In article <35348@mips.mips.COM> rex@mips.COM (Rex Di Bona) writes: > >Does anybody know of a country other than the US that still has >imperial measurments, as a standard? > We just brought this up in sci.physics. I mentioned a CNN news article from several months ago which named the three countries which used imperial measurements as standards. One of the others, I believe, was Malta, though it may on second thought have been Burma since I tend to confuse the two. I couldn't and can't remember the third, though it was certainly not a major nation. Great Britain uses kilometres now. Somebody then posted that CNN was wrong, the official units of the USA are metric units, as decreed by congress in 18?5 (1855, I think). He said that the only reason the traditional units were used was for the convenience of immigrants from countries which still used the imperial units. Oh well, the government of Malta thanks all you thoughtful people who put up signs in miles even though all americans prefer kilometres :-) >-- >Penguin Lust is NOT Immoral (I, as usual, speak only for myself --) >rex@mips.com -- Christopher Neufeld....Just a graduate student | "Give me ten men like neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca | Clouseau and I could cneufeld@pro-generic.cts.com | destroy the world." "Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity" | ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V11 #1 *******************