 | | Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake" —David Koudys
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| | | (URL) which the metric system, and the flaws therein, is quickly discussed via a book review. Going beyond the mistooks that the system is based on, it still is the way to go! Hurry up you Americans and catch up with the 'civilized world'! ;) Dave (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake" —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | (...) Someone please correct me if I have this wrong, but I vaguely remember something about Thomas Jefferson being largely responsible for rejecting the metric system in this country - he had his own pet way of determing what should be a meter that (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake" —David Koudys
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| | | | | | (...) I thought the Mars Observer had a different problem, as in the parts were built by different companies that didn't communicate clearly, and that the 'finished' product wasn't tested as a unit--the problem happened something like this-- the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake" —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | | (...) You are describing the same problem, not a different one. (...) As I recall, they simply lost contact. Looking around so we don't have to depend on faulty memory....aha: (URL) ya go! -->Bruce<-- (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake" —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | Too many failed Mars probes: it was the Mars Climate Orbiter that had the failed metric/english measurements. (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Hey you Yanks! Catch up with the "World's Mistake" —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) Even the 'uncivilized world' has went metric ;) The USA remains the only developed nation not to use the metric system. The costs of this are quite high as it means that any exported products have to be dual labelled. However, one should not (...) (22 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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