1st and 9.144 meters for a first down

It’s a game of 2.54 centimeterses, as we know.
 
i have tickets at the 45.72 meter line on Saturday. Don't be jealous.
 
"We already know all aboot the metric system you hosers, eh. In Canadian Football, the field is 110 yards which is 100 meters. Also the ball is made of a mixture of rutabaga & seal bile, and the fans shave their pubes to look like PM Justin Trudeau's eyebrows. (At least, I do.) Allez les Alouettes!"

-- @Hank Kingsley
 
The metric system all you've got to do is carry a decimal place. In our system it requires actual math en shit.

And the rest of the world calls US the lazy ones.
 
When I was in elementary school in the late 60's/early 70's we were routinely told that the US would be permanently changing over to the metric system in the next 10 years. That it was what the rest of the world used was the justification for it being part of the curriculum.
Every math class I've taken since has had a combination of both and I've used a lot of both.
I've bought a lot of lumber over the last 4 months, $20,000 worth minimum.
While you're creating scrap, knowing your 16ths saves on the pocketbook.
 
Mofo said:
"We already know all aboot the metric system you hosers, eh. In Canadian Football, the field is 110 yards which is 100 meters. Also the ball is made of a mixture of rutabaga & seal bile, and the fans shave their pubes to look like PM Justin Trudeau's eyebrows. (At least, I do.) Allez les Alouettes!"

-- @Hank Kingsley
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Don't watch the CFL.
 
Blackshirts BLVD said:
It would be more beneficial in certain communication aspects and research, but other than that... no one using the metric system landed on the moon, so what of it
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rsw626 said:
Except you know, us.
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Blackshirts BLVD said:
We use the imperial system.
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rsw626 said:
Contrary to urban myth, NASA did use the metric system for the Apollo Moon landings. SI units were used for arguably the most critical part of the missions – the calculations that were carried out by the Lunar Module’s onboard Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) during the computer-controlled phases of the spacecraft’s descent to the surface of the Moon, and for the journey of the Ascent stage of the craft during its return to lunar orbit, where it would rendezvous with the Command and Service Module (CSM).

The computer display readouts were in units of feet, feet per second, and nautical miles – units that the Apollo astronauts, who had mostly trained as jet pilots, would have been accustomed to using. Internally, however, the computer’s software used SI units for all powered-flight navigation and guidance calculations, and values such as altitude and altitude rate were only converted to imperial units when they needed to be shown on the computer’s display.

FYI, SI Units are International System of Units, i.e Metric.
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@Bayou Tiger
 
The moon is 384,400 km away from Earth! The farthest humans have been away from the surface of Earth is a mere 400km.

Pffft! That's about the distance from Dallas to Houston.....
 
Red_Alert said:
When I was in elementary school in the late 60's/early 70's we were routinely told that the US would be permanently changing over to the metric system in the next 10 years. That it was what the rest of the world used was the justification for it being part of the curriculum.
Every math class I've taken since has had a combination of both and I've used a lot of both.
I've bought a lot of lumber over the last 4 months, $20,000 worth minimum.
While you're creating scrap, knowing your 16ths saves on the pocketbook.
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Whippersnapper. :beer2:
 
Red_Alert said:
When I was in elementary school in the late 60's/early 70's we were routinely told that the US would be permanently changing over to the metric system in the next 10 years. That it was what the rest of the world used was the justification for it being part of the curriculum.
Every math class I've taken since has had a combination of both and I've used a lot of both.
I've bought a lot of lumber over the last 4 months, $20,000 worth minimum.
While you're creating scrap, knowing your 16ths saves on the pocketbook.
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Deep Creek said:
Whippersnapper. :beer2:
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Along with learning the metric system, we were also warned of the coming ice age that would plunge the world into mass starvation by the year 2000.
 
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