And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Nevermind the metric bull-oney. In America we use numerical designation for sizing, each number reflecting eighths of an inch, e.g. #4 equals 1/2", #5 equals 5/8" etc.
From Chat gpt "The Saturn V (the rocket that sent Apollo astronauts to the Moon) was built using both metric and imperial units, but imperial (U.S. customary) units dominated the engineering, manufacturing, and documentation."
And then there is the C grade of Chinesium steel.
ReplyDeletelol. That’s the rusted SS class !! Always bent a little.
DeleteNevermind the metric bull-oney. In America we use numerical designation for sizing, each number reflecting eighths of an inch, e.g. #4 equals 1/2", #5 equals 5/8" etc.
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Deletethere are two types of countries. Those that use the metric system and those that have landed men on the moon
ReplyDeleteHow true!
DeleteFrom Chat gpt "The Saturn V (the rocket that sent Apollo astronauts to the Moon) was built using both metric and imperial units, but imperial (U.S. customary) units dominated the engineering, manufacturing, and documentation."
DeleteMillimeters? I shake my fist at the metric system!
ReplyDeleteThey now use fiberglass rebar in some jobs.
ReplyDeletewow, i guess i've been retired longer than i thought !?
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