Originally Posted by
PityOnU
Well, tbf, the USA was basically the only advanced country to not be completely bombed flat/economically ravaged following WWII, so there was a bit of an advantage there... Also all the German rocket scientists we stole... So...
Also taking a moment to point out that this is now apparently a thread about people being butthurt in slight diffences between measuring units. Also pointing out that the units that the USA (that being, me as an American) are called "Imperial" units, because they come from our benevolent rulers across the pond. Not sure why we cling to them so hard given the "freedom" slant we like to slap on everything.
Um I come in peace, but you realize NASA used/uses metric, and it was the metric system, in conjunction with the American ingenuity, that got man on the moon. They didn't use imperial on the space program lol
So metric and Americans. And well and that guy with the accent from Germany who built the rockets during the war, who's in those videos of Kennedy strolling about brand new Cape Canaveral..
That's who got man on the moon so many years ago. Just sayin'. For learning fractions nothing beats imperial, and nothing beats an imperial tape measure for jobs around the house.
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