Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))

Peter Ceresole (peter@cara.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 14 Oct 1995 15:51:42 +0100

In article <45n21g$dle@crcnis3.unl.edu>,
raccoon@cse.unl.edu (Joshua Hesse) wrote:

>Not only have they not been to the moon, they haven't even been able to launch
>a manned spacecraft.

The Russians are metric. They may not have got to the moon, but they have a
working space staion up there, while moon exploration is just a distant
memory. I guess that's it really- imperial is kind of historical stuff,
while metric is there for the present onwards.

Peter