OT: Strange future for down-under?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Do you want to pay for that change? The biggest thing stopping the US from converting to the metric system is the extremely high cost of doing so. Think of all of those billions of road signs that have to be changed, for one thing.

Sorry Fyron. You are wrong on this one. US manufacturing and the scientific community has already switched to metrics. They only keep the old system around in customer facing areas because of our cultural stubborness. Actually I think you would find the cost to totally convert would be less then the cost of maintaining the two systems like we do now. Not to mention the money we'd save by not blowing up our Mars missions.

Geoschmo