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To: Red Badger
And that is why metric kills.

It does not live in the real world.

10 posted on 03/07/2022 10:50:31 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

>>And that is why metric kills.
>>It does not live in the real world.

Not so. Metrics is what everyone should be using. May stance may not be popular here, but it is correct. Some old things just need to be retired. Metrics has been around a LONG time and makes much more sense. (Discuss, please...)


29 posted on 03/07/2022 11:20:36 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

It killed the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999...

An investigation attributed the failure to a measurement mismatch between two software systems: metric units by NASA and US Customary (imperial or “English”) units by spacecraft builder Lockheed Martin.


52 posted on 03/07/2022 12:54:28 PM PST by deks
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