The previous systems also worked fine in other parts of the world, but pretty much every country came to the conclusion that it’s simply smart to switch to the metric system, giving up their own with seemingly random conversions.
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samus12345@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoWe’ll just keep things as they are becuase it seems to be working fine.
pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And those that didn’t don’t seem to be suffering any ill effects as a result.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fine except for the Mars Climate Orbiter.