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   5950 Dead, 1093 since 1/20/09 to Matthew Russotto   
   Re: Are weapons made in metric or standa   
   28 Mar 11 00:09:37   
   
   XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: dead@gone.com   
      
   On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:45:44 +0000, Matthew Russotto wrote:   
      
   > In article   
   > <18c30afd-2010-412e-923e-0b256cd6725c@s18g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,   
   > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nk_666?=   wrote:   
   >>   
   >>Of course U.S. weapons are designed using the metric system, since the   
   >>math of physics is impossible without it.   
   >   
   > ROTFL.  Physics works just fine with feet and pounds rather than meters   
   > and kilograms.  The math changes only by a few constant factors.   
      
   Yeah, but having to convert km/sec into furlongs per fortnight does tend   
   to increase the odds that your Mars probe may fail to adequately   
   decelerate before encountering the planet.   
      
      
      
      
      
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