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Re: Instructions Storage
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lugnet.storage
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Mon, 13 Mar 2000 01:43:50 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, Troy Cefaratti writes:
> > PS. Who still uses non-metric systems? There were only three non-SI
> > countries while I was at the university (US, Burundi, Brunei, IIRC).
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> 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.... :)
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> Troy
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 dimensions are approximate, in case anyone is sad enough to work it out
exactly using the lunar calender
Jon
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| (...) 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)
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