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Old February 20th 15, 12:41 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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This is fun!

What was it caused NASA to miss the target on Mars? Did some programmer
use metric when he should have used "the other system" or vice versa?
(km vs miles or meters vs feet)

On 2/19/2015 4:30 PM, wrote:
On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 2:34:40 PM UTC-6, Tony wrote:
Two kinds of countries.

Those who went to the moon

Those who use Metric.

'murica

Tony,

Sorry to be pounding this topic (I'm actually off topic) but this made my day:
http://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-US...feet-and-miles
This makes sense. When shooting at the enemy (preferably from a safe distance) you want to make sure all parties to your 'coalition' use the same measurements.

Maybe 'Murica is getting religion after all!


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Dan Marotta