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.
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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....