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Brunel gauge should have won

>>2060208
Yes
What political bullshit caused the inferior gauge to be maintained?

>>2060108
Overthrowing the space transportation business alone is worth more than all other 21st century inventions.

>>2060319
This tbqh, I can't avoid smiling at the fact that space travel was taken away from government-employed nerds with inflated egos. Them and the boomer government-embedded spaceship building companies got humiliated. I'm not really mad, NASA is cool, but I got tired of looking at that whole situation with them making no progress and keeping space travel as this mythical once-a-year ritual where the NASA wizards in their white labcoats send some overqualified supermen on a disposable multimillion dollar vehicle into space.

>>2060208
Standard should have been 1500 mm. That would be right 0.007” less than 4’ 11 1/16.” Everyone’s equipment would have been compatible with each other regardless of which measurement system they were using. No one needs anymore than that.

>>2060319
Probably but it's a bit early to say that.

>>2060108
>wishing was someone he doesnt know existed

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>>2060208
i mean, sorta did, ireland and parts of australia did adopt 5'3"

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>>2064926
Australia adopted them all.