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Topic	Have you thanked Ronald Reagan yet for stopping the US Metric System Conversion?
Darkman124 06/03/17 12:14:04 AM #12:	Milkman5 posted... Tropicalwood posted... Didn't the imperial system cause the mars probe to crash. iirc two different groups of people were calculating the numbers and the second people forgot to convert the units so the calculations were using the wrong numbers correct traditionally the solution in the scientific community is "everyone should use metric so nobody forgets the 32.2 conversion from lbm to lbf" --- And when the hourglass has run out, eternity asks you about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. <cite>Darkman124 posted [p:880312164] in Have you t... [t:75415971]...</cite> <quote><cite>Milkman5 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Tropicalwood posted...</cite> <quote>Didn't the imperial system cause the mars probe to crash.</quote> iirc two different groups of people were calculating the numbers and the second people forgot to convert the units so the calculations were using the wrong numbers</quote> correct traditionally the solution in the scientific community is "everyone should use metric so nobody forgets the 32.2 conversion from lbm to lbf" --- And when the hourglass has run out, eternity asks you about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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