Re: Charles Stross, GLASSHOUSE

Charlie Stross wrote:

Stoned koala bears drooled eucalyptus spittle in awe
as <battista@xxxxxxx> declared:

The reason that the US has not gone fully metric is that there's no
pressing reason to do so.

Other than to stop your Mars probes crashing :)


It wasn't the use of English units that caused the failure of the
Climate Orbiter, it was the mixing of different unit systems. You could
just as well claim the Metric system caused it.




Brian
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