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Wes
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by Wes » Thu Aug 12, 2004 1:56 am
Yep, except all they know how to do is change grams into ounces and back again. Does that calculater tell how many grams in a 8-ball or quarter ounce?
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vic
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by vic » Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:14 am
Terry... would you like to add anything about cms vs. inches?
LMAO
! Enough with all that detestation ALREADY !
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Crankmas
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by Crankmas » Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:22 pm
don't forget the Nasa screw up on the Hubble do to the failure to convert systems, crazy man
tomdarch
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by tomdarch » Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:34 pm
Crankmas wrote: don't forget the Nasa screw up on the Hubble do to the failure to convert systems, crazy man
I still can't believe that anyone associated with a space project was allowed to use any non-metric units at all. It really would be interesting to find out how inches-feet-miles snuck in there in the first place. (Maybe it was some old crumudgeon engineer/project manager?)
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Crankmas
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by Crankmas » Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:00 pm
how true, if they were using metric exclusively it would have saved a boat load of money-but instead it was the King James to Ebonics meltdown
spuzo
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by spuzo » Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:21 pm
Wes wrote: Yep, except all they know how to do is change grams into ounces and back again.
Wes
Well that's more than I could do in high school...or now. They would have at least passed 9th grade math...
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no grain
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by no grain » Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:27 pm
I have been in Australia for a bit over a month now, and I am now a metric pro. At first, it was rough describing moves on routes and lengths.
For the record, it's awesome here and the climbing is great. I also miss the Red, like you read about.
No big deal.