[ARC5] Meter. Feet, Pounde etc.,,

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I was also an Electrical Engineering undergraduate mumble mumble years ago, 
and I would maintain that of all of the engineering disciplines, Electrical 
had fewer units affected (i.e., changed to some inconveniently scaled 
strangely named unit) than any other.  Aside from those in magnetics, most of 
commonly used units are the same today as they were when I was a Freshman 49 
years ago or earlier than that when most of what we talk about here was new.  
Plus I don't see anything more inherently awkward about the foot-pound than 
the newton-meter.  Less in fact.  How much does it hurt to drop a newton on 
your toe?  I had to look it up.  I'd have to agree about the slug, though.  
Maybe it should have been converted into the standard unit of measure for 
illegal drug busts.  Could have been used for both the criminals and the drugs 
- two slugs were caught with five slugs.  :-)

In a message dated 9/23/2010 10:21:55 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> >...hey, let's get on 260 feet.
> 
> When I was an Electrical Engineering undergraduate student, thirty-mumble
> years ago, we took some little pride in the electrical sciences having
> always been metric from the start.
> 
> We even looked down a little upon our fellow mechanical-minded students
> for their use of awkward English units like BTUs and foot-pounds.  You
> just had to snicker a little at a units system that included the SLUG.

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