If staying on Imperial measurement units is the price for getting FTL, starfighters, and FRIKKIN' LIGHTSABERS, then metric can bite my shiny astromechanical ass.
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![[Image: i6yckt00gzgm0hzsy2bh.jpg]](http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/i6yckt00gzgm0hzsy2bh.jpg)
This one seems pretty bland... until you find out it's a .25" (or 6.35mm, for those Imperial-Impaired) chip... in one of the cupola windows on the ISS. Okay, probably not enough to panic over, but most emphatically not someplace you want to see a windshield chip.
And, continuing our Science vs SciFi theme, here's one from the fantastical side of the divide:
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![[Image: i6yckt00gzgm0hzsy2bh.jpg]](http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/i6yckt00gzgm0hzsy2bh.jpg)
This one seems pretty bland... until you find out it's a .25" (or 6.35mm, for those Imperial-Impaired) chip... in one of the cupola windows on the ISS. Okay, probably not enough to panic over, but most emphatically not someplace you want to see a windshield chip.
And, continuing our Science vs SciFi theme, here's one from the fantastical side of the divide:
![[Image: a73dwb9nu97o8jizzclz.jpg]](http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/a73dwb9nu97o8jizzclz.jpg)