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Re: LEGO Queen Mary 2 - Making-of
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lugnet.boats
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 8 Jun 2009 02:02:12 GMT
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In lugnet.boats, David Laswell wrote:
> You mean the bit where it's stated that if God intended for us to
> use Metric, he would have seen to it that Jesus had 10 disciples?
Well, you'd think the ten fingers things would have been hint enough...
> It's even more telling that the same individuals who use weights and
> measures on a daily basis often find ways to circumvent the metric
> system, which is beautiful on paper, but entirely impractical in
> real-world situations.
Huh. What real world are you working in? In my professional life, which I
suspect uses actual weights and measures a bit, English units are just something
we joke about, never actually use. The closest we come to in this debate is
between cgs and mks (I prefer the second).
--
Brian Davis
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| (...) You mean the bit where it's stated that if God intended for us to use Metric, he would have seen to it that Jesus had 10 disciples? (...) No we're not. And it's telling that no country in the world has voluntarily undergone the metrication (...) (15 years ago, 7-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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