All in all I just wanted to say that the whole mocking attitude that Europeans have against the imperial system is, while not completely unfounded, a little misplaced.
An actual spaceship actually crashed into actual Mars because the Americans were using Imperial and everyone else was using Metric. It's not just some theoretical issue.
I imagine Vinny trying to park a car - he gets it in the space first time, but it's 2cm out of alignment so he drives back out of the space, tries again, misses the space completely, drives around the block, tries the space again but drives right through and out the other side... half an hour later he's back where he was in the first place and decides it's good enough.
I love these guys but the mountain they make out of this Kerbal molehill is hilarious.
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