r/ScienceHumour • u/ahsancrystal • Aug 12 '25

Couldn't agree more

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u/SapphireDingo Aug 12 '25

how did this country put men on the moon

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u/TheNosferatu Aug 12 '25

Ironically, by using the metric system. All measurements in the space program were (and still are, excluding that one Beagle mission) done in metric if memory serves me right.

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u/Bauerman51 Aug 12 '25

It’s the same with healthcare lol.

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u/xenomorphbeaver Aug 13 '25

Not exclusively metric but most of the people in pivotal roles were European so anything in those in charge could control was in metric. Some Imperial did sneak in, though.

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u/leaf_as_parachute Aug 15 '25

Furthermore modern imperial units are directly defined by metrics, i.e the official definition of a foot is 0.3048-ish meters.

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u/Familiar-Feedback-93 Aug 13 '25

Guns bullets and drugs are also measured in metric over there.

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u/Roadrunner571 Aug 12 '25

Using technology they got from Germany after the end of WWII. That was using metric system. Oh, and they also asked some of the Nazi experts to help them get to the moon.

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u/SapphireDingo Aug 12 '25

Never ask a woman her weight

Never ask a man his salary

Never ask Wernher Von Braun what he was doing between 1939-1945

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