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"Crossrail budget may be slashed by a third"
On 27 May, 19:55, allantracy wrote:
I dont know why we bother with Europe, the whole thing is flawed, we would be much better off with the dollar and become the 51st state and we could go back toImperialmeasurements far better than all this foreign muck that no one wants. SI units are starting to appear on some things in the US, as opposed to American units also being printed as a conversion to an odd quantity in SI units. I have seen soft drinks in 2 litre and 3 litre bottles for example. I suspect that a lot of engineering is actually done in SI units; there's a lot of multi-national work being done these days, and the US is about the only place left that still uses their own units these days. As for going back to Imperial units, where do you think you're going to get any support for that? The UK has been metric for well over 30 years. Young people, and that now probably means anyone under 40 will have learned in metric at school from day one, so they're unlikely to want to convert to another system. Older people like myself originally learned in Imperial units, and later had to convert to metric. Having converted, I think most people recognised that it was a better system, and would not want to go back. Even amongst those who still prefer the Imperial units I think that many would acknowledge that the period of conversion, which we dragged out for far too long, was the worst thing, and wouldn't want to see another such conversion back to imperial units. I seriously doubt that you would be able to find many people to support such a conversion, and I wouldn't recommend any party which actually wanted to get elected to put this in its manifesto. If you'd stood against metrication 40 years ago you might have had a chance of stopping it, or more likely delaying it, but not now. I think it will eventually come in the US as well. As for Imperial units being British, I suspect that most of them are about as British as St. George; i.e. not very. |
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