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Im going to make a rare move of defending Fox News here. She doesnt blame the metric system for the crash. She quite reasonably gives an example of different measurement systems as something that could potentially lead to trouble. Thats far from crazy; in 1983, an Air Canada flight *ran out of gas* because of just such a mix-up; the spectacular save by the pilot (google Gimli glider) overshadowed the incredible screw-up that had occurred. And lets not forget that the Mars Climate Orbiter - a $750M mission that crashed into Mars because of English/Metric confusion. Were clearly the odd man out in this, and unfortunately we probably always will be.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:41:14 +0000

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