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FatBytestard wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
FatBytestard wrote:
richard wrote:

So you still use pounds and degrees fahrenheit - not to mention 16 oz pints.
You're the ones (to quote your words) who are seriously outdated - and who have everything "arse about face".
Hell, even one of your space probes failed because the lockheed engineers used poundals or some such obsolete abomination -


maybe a slug - lol

No, idiot. It failed because it used kilograms, and the technician
filled the tank with pounds, which meant that it got less than half of
what it needed. This only proves that conversion to another standard
means that mistakes WILL be made.


No, what it means is having 2 sets of units, one used by the entire world (except yourselves), the other in the USA causes

mistakes.

You need to move to using international units.


Read it again, idiot. What makes you think we haven't?


The fact you use 'traditional' units all over the place.

We converted and have had no problems. In fact it makes learning science easier.

Graham