That's why 'world' was in quotes. Hubris is tedious, nationalist or otherwise. I remember visiting someone's oversized digs who had an old Sony 3/4 inch videoca

That's why 'world' was in quotes. Hubris is tedious, nationalist or otherwise. I remember visiting someone's oversized digs who had an old Sony 3/4 inch videocassette archives of Charles Kuralt's 'On the Road' series. In one, Kuralt was whining about Jimmy Carter's attempts to impose the metric system as US standard and ended his rant with 'there's nothing romantic about a centimeter worm' [from some 'inch worm measuring a marigold' pop song]. That general sentiment held and subsequent attempts at metrification fizzled out. And we know what impact mixed standards had on construction of the mirror for the Hubble space telescope.