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[-] Lizardking27@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Mfs don't realize we already fuckin use metric for all kinds of shit.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

I bet the dang Nasa doesn't measure their rockets by the barley corn.

[-] HaphazardFinesse@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Fun probably-already-known fact: NASA accidentally destroyed a $200 million Mars orbiter from of a missed imperial->metric conversion, because NASA does generally work in metric, and some Lockheed-Martin software provided numbers in imperial (while claiming to be metric)

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