Reply to post: Re: Typo? No, they use Farhenheit

Blast-off! Boat free launch at last. Orion heads for space

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Re: Typo? No, they use Farhenheit

and other "english" measurements because we were not stupid enough to fall for your "metric" ruse. The take up of metric is a conspiracy foisted on the rest of the world to gain a competitive advantage by forcing US manufacturers to change all their tooling. This would have cost the US trillions, and had no other benefit besides "similarity" of units.

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