Timwi wrote:
Actually, I think a much better idea would be to stick to kilometers and other international standard metric units, and hope for the best that the US abandon their weird units in the long run...
:-)
Not until my generation is dead and buried, at least. Back when I was in grade school in the 70s, they tried to teach us the metric system (which is clearly inferior and incomprehensible, by the way!) but it didn't take. Being an educated person, I can do the conversions, but I have no intuitive grasp of Celcius temperatures, nor do most Americans.
Seriously, though, at the present time there is no significant movement afooot to change our measurement system, nor does anyone seem to particularly care.
--Jimbo