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Old January 4th, 2004, 11:12 PM
fishman
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Default US going metric?


"jj" wrote in message
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I'm curious, has there ever been an attempt at going metric in the US?

e.g.
using Celsius? How do people feel about it?

jj



Astronomer Carl Sagan (billions upon billions of stars in the cosmos....)
was one of the biggest proponents in the 70's and 80's but it never took
off. It's rather a non-issue among the general population. Metric and
metric conversion are taught in public schools, for what it's worth.

Chris