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To: C19fan
"...five kilometres deep and 20 kilometres long, and created a waterfall with a 1.5 kilometre drop."

Call me a backwards 'murican, but I hate the metrification of the language.

23 posted on 03/26/2018 12:14:27 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier
"...five kilometres deep and 20 kilometres long, and created a waterfall with a 1.5 kilometre drop." Call me a backwards 'murican, but I hate the metrification of the language.

They use the metric system in Aussie land, where this magazine is published. Crikey!

40 posted on 03/27/2018 5:18:26 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Windflier
"...Call me a backwards 'murican, but I hate the metrification of the language...

There are 2 types of countries: Those that have been to the moon, and those that use metric.

44 posted on 03/27/2018 11:54:49 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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