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China catching up, yes slowly, but surely. As to the moon, remember/heard of Werner von Braun, the kraut who designed the rocket that enabled Yanks to do it. Going to Mars, are the Chinese lending you the money? With the crackpots trying to be presidents in the US, the only way you are going is downhill. As to no comprende, please read it again and ag.....

Every country has to start and China shows great potential in almost every field. The real question you should answer is, why is America going down the gurgler and China rising? Yes, Canada signed it. It too used medieval measurements at that time, and that as we know now was not so clever, or do you know another reason why it tries to go metric now? Metric nations might have lost the war, but America lost the plot. It is quite a different question whether China's rise to power is something to look forward to.

Well, they are at it and its called the C919 a competitor for the A 320 and B 737. It will be interesting to see when China and Airbus combine to produce aviation bolts and everything else in metric. Boeing's struggle to compete with Airbus will be even more accentuated because it will be the only aircraft manufacturer using that medieval anachronism and that is costly. Yes, America used its power after 1945 to force the world to fly in medieval measurements. That silly move confirms that intelligence does not always match power.

Nothing is permanent on this globe and with metric China taking Americas No 1 position sooner, or later, it is pretty sure that Americans have to adapt if they want to survive economically. Americans do have to fly and land in metres in Chinese and Russian airspace. And please what does KPH stand for? Kisses per hour, kilogram per hour, kilometre per hour, Kelvin ph, or kilobyte ph? The proper and universal symbol for km hour is km/h, thank you.