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am_Unition  ·  3599 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars

    What's amazing is that the rest of the world, as far as machine tools goes, are still on Imperial.

Some quick research points to Britain's early dominance in the Industrial Revolution, combined with their metrication process not seeing official adoption until the mid 1960's. Apparently they still use imperial units quite a bit.

Anyway, it's almost time for a pint (WINKWINK) here in CDT.





kleinbl00  ·  3599 days ago  ·  link  ·  

All one has to do is watch Top Gear. They still talk in miles per hour. The fact that Metric was invented by the French certainly didn't help matters.