Bob,
Well, personal tastes can be applied to many parts of our life, but not to science and mathematics, the thing that amazes me most is that all of us as OMs talk about kilometers, meters, centimeters and millimeters when we think of "lengths of "wave", we quietly call them kilometer, decametric, metric, down to the millimeter, but some used stupid habits to justify feet and inches in mechanical measurements ...
Mysteries of the human mind ...
Yet just as radio amateurs we know that it is enough to study a little (and not so much) to adapt to the choices of science ...
I also struggled when in astronomy we went from the common use of "light years" to "parsec", but it is normal human evolution, a little effort is enough, if we have had the patience to learn CW and measure the wavelength in meters, why not take a step forward?
I keep saying ... mysteries of the human mind !!!
Hello and end of speech, I do not want to convince anyone, they are only the complaints of a poor old man!
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73 de Loris?IW4AJR
On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 10:08 PM, Bob Lunsford wrote:
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Loris, I can bend both ways. To people as here, that are taught the English system, it is easier and simpler for them to stay mainly with the English system because of tradition and seeing no need to learn a second system, even though it is based on the decimal system, easier to manipulate mathematically, etc., etc. You cannot convince me the metric system is more logical and common sense because I already know this. This cannot as easily be taught or accepted by those who are entrenched in a system that they have been taught since a child but with use, they can learn.
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I like futbol and do not necessarily like American Football but here in America, this causes some of my friends to wonder about me. Watching the way Europeans and many other countries play futbol is a pleasure to me, although some women's teams do not cause this excitement nearly as much...
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Bottom line, you don't have to convince me that the metric system is best on many fronts. Most in science and technology agree on this.
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However:
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"Everyone's taste is in his own mouth." {;->
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Bob ¡ª KK5R
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On Friday, January 1, 2021, 2:47:02 PM EST, Loris IW4AJR via groups.io <lorisbollina@...> wrote:
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Hy Bob
The fact remains that in the world 6/7 billion people use the Decimal Metric System, that the ISO itself has established systems of multiples and submultiples related to the Decimal system ... I don't think that 400 or 500 million people, equal to only the 7% of the world population can continue to burden EXTRA COST over all the equipment, machinery and mechanics they import from the rest of the world with absurd costs for doubler the ingeniering for the rest of the world and maintain a measurement system that has been abandoned even by their own scientists ...
I know the inch metric comparison rules, but now, in the third millennium they are absurd and anachronistic !?it is time for the legacies of the past to be left in the past ... the future awaits us ! and the future does not belong exclusively to the USA, however big and important they may be, but to the whole world, from Europe to Asia and Africa and, not to forget, South America!
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