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Bloodyashes@lemm.ee to Videos@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

The Many Times The US Tried To Go Metric

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Bloodyashes@lemm.ee to Videos@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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    There would be mass confusion if the US went metric.

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      Seemed to work fine everywhere else.

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        Whoosh

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          I dont think they get it.

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      There’s mass confusion now. It’s why industry by industry is voluntarily metricating. Most famously American aerospace used US Customary until a conversion error crashed a Mars mission.

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