Comments on: This minute has 61 seconds http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7416 p2pnet.net - reader powered Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:56:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7416#comment-27154 Reader's Write Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:15:16 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7416#comment-27154 I guess this goes to show that no matter how we measure things, we are still behind. The metric was to be the world standard, a move that somehow didn't make it to the US. For now, we have a mismash jumble mixture of both. Go pick up a container in the store that has a product on it and you will find the container volume listed in US imperial and in metric. They been doing that for years now but no move has been made to get it to totally metric. Working on a car, what work a shade tree mechanic can do, means you have to have two sets of tools, one in US imperial standard, one in metric. No tool manufacturer is going to want to go the rest of the way. Those manufacturers are selling two tool sets to each mechanic where if the standards were ever to complete, they would be back to selling just one set of tools again; those of metric. But this isn't about the evils of corporations and businesses, this is about standards. So until we get on galatic standard we will always be off on our times. When is that coming down the pipes? We've been all this time without going that way. Lord knows we are off when it comes to galatic events and as a backward species, we are still on local time and measurement! (Enough of the poking fun.) No matter what standard you use, there will always at some point be an adjustment necessary. Timing by vibration of cyrstal resonanances, once thought to be the most accurate of accurate has given way to timing on the atomic level. The next break through will most likely give us an exponnetial leap in time keeping but entrophy guarrenties there will be adjustments necessary. Simply we keep up and adjust or we fall behind. None of that will affect the price of eggs in China. They'll still sell for the same price. I guess this goes to show that no matter how we measure things, we are still behind. The metric was to be the world standard, a move that somehow didn’t make it to the US. For now, we have a mismash jumble mixture of both. Go pick up a container in the store that has a product on it and you will find the container volume listed in US imperial and in metric. They been doing that for years now but no move has been made to get it to totally metric.

Working on a car, what work a shade tree mechanic can do, means you have to have two sets of tools, one in US imperial standard, one in metric. No tool manufacturer is going to want to go the rest of the way. Those manufacturers are selling two tool sets to each mechanic where if the standards were ever to complete, they would be back to selling just one set of tools again; those of metric.

But this isn’t about the evils of corporations and businesses, this is about standards. So until we get on galatic standard we will always be off on our times. When is that coming down the pipes? We’ve been all this time without going that way. Lord knows we are off when it comes to galatic events and as a backward species, we are still on local time and measurement! (Enough of the poking fun.)

No matter what standard you use, there will always at some point be an adjustment necessary. Timing by vibration of cyrstal resonanances, once thought to be the most accurate of accurate has given way to timing on the atomic level. The next break through will most likely give us an exponnetial leap in time keeping but entrophy guarrenties there will be adjustments necessary. Simply we keep up and adjust or we fall behind. None of that will affect the price of eggs in China. They’ll still sell for the same price.

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