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minus-squareDookieman12@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down3·9 days agoWe adopted the standard. The boat with the official measurements sank on the way over, you unread swine.
minus-squarejustOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 days agoFun fact: the moon landing was programmed and calculated in metric. So, laughs in moon landing units.
minus-squareZwiebel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-29 days agoUS units have all been redefined in relation to metric, so technically they use metric just with wierd factors
minus-squareT00l_shed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days agoBecause of all the Canadian engineers who went to work for Nasa after the arrow project was cancelled
minus-squareGoodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·9 days agoYou (meaning the US) had 200 years to undo one mistake and you failed.
We adopted the standard. The boat with the official measurements sank on the way over, you unread swine.
Fun fact: the moon landing was programmed and calculated in metric.
So, laughs in moon landing units.
US units have all been redefined in relation to metric, so technically they use metric just with wierd factors
Because of all the Canadian engineers who went to work for Nasa after the arrow project was cancelled
You (meaning the US) had 200 years to undo one mistake and you failed.