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Re: Instructions Storage
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lugnet.storage
Date: 
Mon, 13 Mar 2000 03:13:06 GMT
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Troy Cefaratti <mnementh@^StopSpammers^nacs.net>
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Don't knock the imperial measurement system - it put man on the Moon!

It also lost the mars lander....

Troy



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  Re: Instructions Storage
 
(...) 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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  Re: Instructions Storage
 
(...) 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)

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