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Subject: Re: Retarded British fight to keep outdated Imperial measurements Posted on: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:55:58 +0000 (UTC)

On 11 May, 19:57, Mary Pegg wrote:
> Hatunen wrote:
> > As to engineering, unless something is being engineered to sell
> > in a foreign country, what does it matter?
>
> Most famously, when you're building something for NASA:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
>
> And even if you're not mixing up your units, it's *much* easier to
> get it right if everything's a nice factor of ten, rather than
> 16s, 12s, 3s, 22s, etc.
>
> --
> "Checking identity papers is a complete waste of time. If anyone can
> be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".

....now that is retarded !