 | | Re: Instructions Storage —Troy Cefaratti
| | | | (...) Why, us silly americans (as in people from the USA) still use a non-metric system of measurements! Just add it to the list of reasons why the rest of the world doesn't like us.... :) Troy (25 years ago, 12-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Instructions Storage —Jonathan Reynolds
| | | | | (...) Don't knock the imperial measurement system - it put man on the Moon! If NASA had used metric at the time, it would surely have put them off going at all, I mean "400,000,000,000mm"* sounds a lot further away than "239,000 miles"* *All (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Instructions Storage —Troy Cefaratti
| | | | | (...) It also lost the mars lander.... Troy (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Instructions Storage —Jonathan Reynolds
| | | | | (...) Only because some clutz couldn't convert. Anyway, the lander wasn't lost - it was gobbled up by a giant, intelligent floating martian gas cloud which doubling in size every four minutes. Jon (25 years ago, 13-Mar-00, to lugnet.storage)
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