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macintux on July 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Before 1948, LA's Power Grid Ran at 50hz

Everything is metric?!

Admittedly these are oldish examples, but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter springs to mind, and my 2005 Jeep is a crazy hodgepodge of metric and imperial bolts.

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