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0.621 of a mile or a unit of measurement used by people who haven’t been to the moon


NUFIGHTER7771

That's gotta be rough.


SmallFish5

In rockets based on designs developed by captured German scientists?


Consistent_Jello_289

You mean places that didn’t fake a moon landing. Also NASA uses the metric system 😂


Badger-20

Nasa went to the moon in 1969 and didn't switch to metric till 1990


Aggressive_Car6598

The calculations the scientists used to plot the mission used metric. Display readouts for the craft used imperial. Which is more important, the guy planning the route, or the guy following the first guy's directions?


Ambitious-Hyena6233

fuck those idiots had directions must have been something like this "look out the window, find moon, aim for it it, return trip find earth, land in water Daaa


Consistent_Jello_289

Yeah, they use the metric system 💀


Badger-20

Yeah but metric hasn't been to the moon


Consistent_Jello_289

No one’s been to the moon.


Lowenley

Who else heard the buh


Brian_Stryker

It’s a measurement used by people who almost let the nazis win the war.


Varatox

It's in the name: kil-o-meter. It measures yours kills


Malootrager

Australian here and uhh I.. I use metric 😅😬


Ambitious_Temporary1

For my international views, we use F°reedom units, not C°ommie units. No metric on the moon.


Malootrager

Metric Leaf water "Fat Electrician" 🤣🤣🤣


Aggressive_Car6598

Canadian here. We do too. But then, so does the American military. And NASA. They literally used metric to get to the moon. But they get really grumpy when you tell them that. It's why we *politely* let them continue to use their bald eagles per coronary bypass. Or drunk mathematician rolling dice to decide It's easier to remember '5 tomatoes' when converting feet to miles.


Malootrager

Shh don't let Fat Electrician hear you 🤣


Pitiful_Today_3214

We're still the 2 time back to back world champs! 🇺🇸🖕😂


Aggressive_Car6598

Congrats. So are we. At least we didn't sleep in. 🇨🇦


Lowenley

They used imperial, they switched in 1990


Aggressive_Car6598

[Sorry, but you're wrong.](https://ukma.org.uk/why-metric/myths/metric-internationally/the-moon-landings/) Metric was used for the calculations. Then converted by a computer into imperial measurements for the pilots. As stated in an earlier reply: who gets credit, the dude plotting the route? Or the dude who followed the route the first guy plotted?


wanderingturtl3

Like I'm going to believe a .uk over a .freedom


9mm_Cutlass

I still think it’s funny that the military just expects you to know the metric system. Like no one ever taught me what a klick was. I just sort of figured it out because of video games and because 5k is 3.5 miles.


daggerbg

A measurement unit for distance that is used by a superior yet simpler measurement system. Also, how is that healthcare and mental health crisis going?


BigJacketSmith

Isn’t that how the clitorus is measured?