WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> I had "CSI Miami" on in the background earlier,  wasn't paying it
 RJT> much attention as it was one I'd seen before,  but I caught this
 RJT> bit of conversation where the medical examiner is discussing the
 RJT> real as opposed to the supposed age of the girl on the slab,  and
 RJT> when the conversation turned to molars not being erupted the
 RJT> supposed M.E. said something about them being "5 centimeters
 RJT> below the gum line",  which I guess would've had them hanging out
 RJT> of the bottom of her jaw,  or something.  :-)

 WC> Must have meant millimeters.

Yeah,  that's the usual thing when I go to the dentist...

 WC> What comes of having ignored the idea of going metric years ago.

People don't think metric,  for sure.

 WC> We've embraced HDTV (though not I), debit cards rather than cash
 WC> yet ignore the far simpler metric system.

 WC> Heck, remember when two groups programming a Mars probe one 
 WC> working in English measurement (feet and yards) and the other in 
 WC> meters splattered that probe into the martian surface rather than 
 WC> placing it into orbit?

Yep.  It should be made clear what one is dealing with in any given context.

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