Topic: If USAmerica can't adopt the metric system, what makes you think anything at all will change?

Anonymous A started this discussion 9 years ago #62,809

USAmericans are never going to join the rest of the world in progress. When PRChina is calling you out on bad environmental decisions you've got to know you've fucked up and are once again the world's laughing stock for stupidity.

Meta joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 29 minutes later[^] [v] #788,688

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 35 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #788,700

Trump is anti-progress, and wants to aggressively reverse progress on most fronts. Of course he pulled out of the Paris deal.

I would call this the American people getting what they want, but Trump lost the popular vote and his approval rating isn't great. So I'm sure most USAmericans are as disappointed as the rest of us.

Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,737

that rainbow part of the picture shows that the artist must be one hell of a horny bastard to imagine a couple of trapezoids and a triangle is a penis going into an ass.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 37 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,749

Anonymous E double-posted this 9 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,751

@OP

Syntax joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 12 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,755

@previous (E)
There is the Horrid case of the Mars Climate Orbiter

Ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound (force)-seconds (lbf·s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N·s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, causing it to pass through the upper atmosphere and disintegrate.[

So bottom line which caused Orbiter to crash rapidly to surface Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the NASA team used metric system for Spacecraft

Here in MC people mix up Penis numbers based on Metric vs English

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 7 hours later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,834

@788,751 (E)
But NASA uses the metric system.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 28 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,836

@788,688 (Meta)
Day Month Year doesn't look nice in essays though.

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI replied with this 9 years ago, 17 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #788,837

Year Month Day or Die

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 14 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #788,905

you'll live another day.

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 17 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #789,048

@788,837 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
That makes no sense though the year is the least important almost always when you give someone a date

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI replied with this 9 years ago, 5 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #789,078

@previous (J)
It is the only method in which dates can easily be sorted from oldest to newest or vice versa.

Anonymous J replied with this 9 years ago, 16 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #789,278

@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
What if you just do sort by date

Anonymous J double-posted this 9 years ago, 54 seconds later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #789,279

@789,078 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Also this can be used alongside ddmmyyyy but it's only useful for computers.

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 9 years ago, 6 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #789,299

@previous (J)

It's just as well we get into the habit now because it will cause political strife in the future otherwise

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