On 11/13/2017 9:22 AM, graham wrote:
> On 2017-11-13 9:17 AM, casa chevrolet wrote:
>> On 11/13/2017 9:07 AM, graham wrote:
>>> On 2017-11-13 9:02 AM, casa chevrolet wrote:
>>>> On 11/12/2017 6:39 PM, graham wrote:
>>>>> On 2017-11-12 4:47 PM, casa chevrolet wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/12/2017 2:15 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 1:37:40 PM UTC-5, Jill McQuown
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 11/12/2017 12:25 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 12:14:40 PM UTC-5, John Kuthe
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> You want Reality: carefully examine physics.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You want fantasy and delusions: listen to what people want!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> QED!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> John Kuthe...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> John the Kelvin scale is completely arbitrary, even if absolute
>>>>>>>>> zero is not.Â* Perhaps we Americans would use the Rankine scale,
>>>>>>>>> instead.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think we're doing just fine with C and F.Â* There are
>>>>>>>> conversion charts
>>>>>>>> easily available if someone finds a recipe and needs to change the
>>>>>>>> measurements to match what they're used to.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wasn't serious suggesting Rankine.Â* However, I do wish we'd finish
>>>>>>> converting to SI.Â* People seem happy buying 2 liters of soda; why
>>>>>>> not finish the job?Â* We're the only first-world country that hasn't.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There's nothing human about metric, a foot beats a 1/3rd meter,
>>>>>> more or less.
>>>>> But what's a foot?
>>>>
>>>> 12 inches, here anyway...
>>>
>>> Give you an inch and you'll take an ell.
>>>
>> LOLOL!!!
>>
>> Good one.
>>
>> But I'll only take 'em a mile or so, no kilo-meters.
>
> One meter is all you need to measure voltage etc.:-)

I would never apply voltage to english language learners.