Re: Re: “Did nobody stop to think what might happen in an emergency in space?”

Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:

On 26/08/2024 06:08, Paul S Person wrote:
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great fan of metric, but the French are certainly not going to agree
to use anything else in /their/ components, and at least using metric
will make the entire mission doesn't just die on reaching its
destination.
 

Are you aware just how few countries choose to not use the metric system?
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I'll help you, it's three: Liberia, Myanmar, and the USA.
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I wouldn't like being lumped in with Myanmar...

I was surprised when in Scotland for Worldcon that all of the speed limit
signs were in miles per hour, especially when the ones in England are all
metric.  I mentioned this to my host who shrugged and said that Scotland
is different.

And when we were visiting a cognac distillery a couple years back I was
surprised to see distillation temperatures in Rheaumur....
--scott

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