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Old 04-26-2015, 11:48 PM   #25947
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Even really bright people screw up when metric and non-metric teams have to cooperate -- like the famous case of the Mars Climate Orbiter that failed to orbit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter


I'm most comfortable with US measures, but I have a few "approximations" I can use when I have to. And bottled beverages are sold in metric sizes here, so I'm pretty good with them.
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