On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:27:25 +1000, in a place far, far away,
"BlagooBlanaa" made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

I remember a rather advanced 'camera' that was a joint
effort between the US and other countries.
When it came time to line up the bits - the other
countries mated beautifully. The US contribution
didn't.

Why?

Because the other countries stuff was done in metric
and the US was done in US and then 'converted' to
metric.

I think all Americans are deeply, subconsciously,
xenophobic -

Yes, that's right. *All* Americans are xenophobic, and no one else
is.