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I dunno. Let me think about it.
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Now why would anyone use the metric system?
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04-27-2010, 05:09 PM
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3m is likely all i'd need  I don't do much measuring beyond that.
Actually a 5m might not be a bad thing. Getting ready to put down some 2" wood flooring. or would that be 5.08cm flooring?
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I think you missed the point I was trying to make, which is that it's not rational to do either speed or fuel economy mods for economic reasons. You do it as a form of recreation, for the fun and for the challenge.
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04-27-2010, 05:51 PM
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...as the tongue-in-cheek saying goes: "...INCHES got to the Moon and back, not METRIC."
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My vehicle experience is pretty much metric these days. Though I use plenty of US nuts and bolts from the hardware store whenever improvising something. If they had big bins of cheap metric stuff I would use that no problem 
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...as the tongue-in-cheek saying goes: "...INCHES got to the Moon and back, not METRIC."
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That reminds me: I once read that during the space race NASA spent big $$$ to R&D a pen that would write in zero-g. The Soviets just used a pencil...
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LOL sometimes simplicity is best. And yes, we may have gotten to the moon, but orbiting the world belonged to the Soviets for a very long time while we tried to get a space capsule off the ground. I think our first attempt to go orbital went 4 inches before exploding?
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...INCHES "work" just as well as CENTIMETERS.
...it's ALL about the cumbersome "in-between" conversions, such as 12's for inches vs. 10's metrics.
...what about the old Summarians who used 60 as their units?
...so, I'll just default to my tongue-in-cheek response: METRIC is UN-American!
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...so, I'll just default to my tongue-in-cheek response: METRIC is UN-American!
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... and NON-METRIC is UN-Rest-of-the-World!
But let's not go there...
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I love the pencil comment Like so many over-engineered and wasteful automatic transmissions.
and hard work is what got stuff into space, not the units of measure. I don't take pride in our system of distance/weight/volume quantification here in the states, it's stupid, non-standard, dates back to monarchy crap.
Lets not whine about it like our folks did and just do it.
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...$600 pens to go along with our $600 toilet seats (ha,ha)!
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and hard work is what got stuff into space, not the units of measure.
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