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Question on the metric system

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    #32
    gctest50
    Registered Users Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    hardCopy wrote: »
    The decimal acre is quite a popular one daft

    "Beautifully appointed family home on 1.16 acres"

    decimal inches n stuff are the best thing ever

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    n stops people borrowing your stuff

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    #33
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,679 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    hardCopy wrote: »
    The decimal acre is quite a popular one daft

    "Beautifully appointed family home on 1.16 acres"

    Which were almost certainly calculated by measuring in metres and converting afterwards.


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    #34
    moyners
    Registered Users Posts: 315 ✭✭moyners


    This guy has a great video on confusing imperial measurements



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    #35
    murphaph
    Registered Users Posts: 19,019 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    Even in the bastion of the metric system that is continental Europe, you still buy car tyres in that wonderful mix of imperial and metric as you do everywhere else in the world!


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    #36
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    AugustusMinimus wrote: »
    Interesting fact.

    NASA uses the metric system for all aeronautical and guidance data.

    However, the Space Shuttle was designed using US customary units and believe it or not, all of the new launch architecture being designed at the moment is being done using US customary units. The cost of converting design software etc is put at 300m dollars and so to save money, they haven't changed.
    No - they did change to the metric system, but Obama changed them back in 2008 as it was costing too much.


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    #37
    CrabRevolution
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    I'm surprised Barack Obama has such a personal input into the front line workings of NASA....

    Was he even president in 2008?


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    #38
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    CrabRevolution wrote: »
    I'm surprised Barack Obama has such a personal input into the front line workings of NASA....

    Was he even president in 2008?
    2009 I mean.
    Yes, NASA is a federal agency and are required to implement cost-cutting measures that come from the Prez.


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