Ferrari Mailing List: Re: metric time{Not much FC}

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

Interesting.  For anyone who has read Isaac Asimov's
"robots" series (Caves of Steel, etc.), metric time,
just as you describe, is used on the spacer worlds,
the first being Aurora.

rick

--- Pat Scopelliti <pscopell [at] stny.rr.com> wrote:

> Oye... and I thought I was the only nut who was
> arguing for a ten hour day,
> a hundred minute hour, and a hundred day year.
> 
> On the other hand, I still question why, if
> residents of Canada are called
> Canadians, residents of Mexico Mexicans, residents
> of Cuba Cubans, why
> aren't residents of the United States called "United
> Statesians"?
> 
> OK... I'll got wait in the corner...
> 
> Pat
> 
> Pat Scopelliti
> pscopell [at] stny.rr.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ken rentiers [mailto:rentiers [at] mac.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:25 AM
> To: Pat Scopelliti
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: [Ferrari] metric time{Not much FC}
> 
> If feet are meters and pounds are kilos what is the
> metric equivalent  
> of time? Hertz? Should not the day be divided in to
> 100 equal  
> segments...i'm sorry for NFC but the thought of Ted
> Williams head  
> bobbing in a jar of liquid nitrogen reminded me of
> the thalidomide  
> baby who grew up and became a skin diver called
> "Sandy".
> 
> Ferrari Content: current issue of Winding Road full
> of new models to  
> come.  http://www.windingroad.com/
> 
> ken
>
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