On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 22:31 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: > andy pugh wrote: > > On 15 December 2012 20:07, Rafael Skodlar <ra...@linwin.com> wrote: > > > > > >> One thing that Americans are terribly conservative about is standards. > >> They will not adopt metric system, not even at the gun point. > >> > > > > Not even using a 9mm? > > > Yeah, the military has been totally metric for quite some time. All > guns were metric > during the Vietnam war, now everything is metric, tools, maps, parts. > > Autos are all metric except for wheel lugnuts. > > Aircraft manufacturing is all metric. Lots of consumer products are made > in metric measure, with the US measure also on the package. Sodas, for > instance. > > Jon > Even when I was a GI, Berlin crisis. the maps were partially metric. X,Y grid was Km but the heights were still in feet. ;-)
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