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From: G0TEZ@GB7YFS.#26.GBR.EU
To : TREK@WW
I wonder if anyone else has noticed any other units in SF films set far
in the future.
In the series Enterprise, set in 2160+, there is an episode where the
science officer T'Pol talks about the hull pressure in 'grammes per square
centimeter.' Pascal wasn't a Vulcan so she wouldn't want to use those but
c.g.i? not even MKS, let alone Systéme International!
In a recent film set a few hundred years from now, there was a time
display. The time was "16:00 ZULU HOURS." Nice to know that eventually,
GMT will take over the universe, even in the French form where Paris is
'Alpha' and Greenwich is 'Zulu' but, at least they
weren't using 'UTC.'
Come to think of it, everyone was using English or, at least American.
French was probably a dead language like Latin and ancient Greek
or, at least, spoken by a few die hards, like Welsh.
Keep it up, chaps.
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7YFS
Message timed: 22:15 on 22 Jan 04
All the best. Ian. ian@g0tez.fsnet.co.uk
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