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		kalleboo on Aug 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system... > Change doesn't have to be instantaneous, it can be gradual over the years As an example, NASA is partially-metric, partially-imperial. Of course, they have that famous failure attributed to mixing units...

spiritplumber on Aug 9, 2014 [–]

I did a bit of work at NASA a couple years back, they wanted everything in millimeters (possibly to deal with the aftermath of that incident). Everything. Even antenna lengths.

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