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Originally Posted by Marcus_Ti
Except...NASA has used metric units for decades....it is only the tool citizenry and Congress and companies that insist on using it. The USA has among its distinguished list of accomplishments...being the only country to kill a $300,000,000USD Martian orbiter probe....due to the continued corporate use of Imperial units (Lockheed used them in their firmware, and didn't tell NASA).
This ^^. Also in medicine and dentistry (healthcare in general) everything is metric.

Originally Posted by desconhecido
There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't.

Originally Posted by ThermionicScott
I recently learned a new variation.

There are two kinds of people in the world:
1) Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data
2)
I like yours better than ^^.

Originally Posted by Doctor Morbius
I'm training for a metric half-century. Got any tips?
32 miles? Just do it!

Originally Posted by Marcus_Ti
"Uh, oops"-Rick Perry.
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