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[quote user="hon30critter"] Ed: ..... There were problems with conversion in some areas. Perhaps the most famous was the Air Canada flight that ran out of fuel over Gimley, Manitoba because the re-fueling guys didn't understand metric measurements and didn't fill the tanks up properly.... [/quote] That is an amazing story of an amazing feat.  And I recall NASA and JPL loss of Martian Climate mission in 1999 that "bounced" off the Martian gravitational field and waaaaaaaaay out into space forever, after $125 million and years of preparation because a Lockheed Martin employee used US units in his calculations instead of the metric that the rest of NASA and JPL had used.  Oh my!  That is the kind of error I would probably make too.....a bit of one and the other system still in my brain.
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