The EU gives up on making England metric
Which means the US will have that much less reason to convert. Not that it matters, we can afford to lose multi-million dollars space probes every once in a while due to conversion errors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6988521.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6988521.stm
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Anyway, my take on it is that you should never, ever start your physics in anything other than metric. (The flip side of the argument is that metric is better for intangibles, such as physics.) Every physics class I'd ever had was in metric so the Imperial units in Statics came as a bit of a shock.
But leave the miles and gallons and yardsticks alone. Our currency is decimalized, and our sciences mostly so, so why is it a big deal to switch the rest? We're not exactly going to go sub-light on the highway...
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I haven't read your link yet but I'm looking forward to it.