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== Film ==
* Used as a joke in ''[[Zenon|Zenon: Girl Of The Twenty First Century]]''. Zenon is from a space station, but when she arrives on Earth, she explodes a test tube because she was thinking in Celsius when all the instructions were in Fahrenheit. [[Critical Research Failure|In a]] ''[[Critical Research Failure|science class]]''.
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** Also normal person slang in Canada.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' (though "inch" does appear occasionally in the [[Expanded Universe]]).
** Technically, it's set in the distant past, but it is futuristic.
* Like its [[Firefly
{{quote| '''Wash:''' Start with the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a 90-pound girl, 'cause I don't think that's ever gettin' old.}}
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** NASA ''did'' use imperial units on the Apollo missions, though. Speeds were in feet per second, and distances were in feet or nautical miles.
*** Only on the displays. Internally, everything was stored and calculated with metric units, but the astronauts wanted altitudes and closing speeds displayed in American units.
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** But averted in Weber's [[Safehold]] Series. The people of Safehold use imperial units, which were deliberately imposed (along with roman numerals and certain religious proscriptions) early in the colonization project in order to hinder technological progress.
* [[David Drake]]'s ''[[
* As seen in the page quote, in British speculative fiction using the metric system in the future is usually a hint of dystopia. Oddly this is a much more common use than in American fiction, perhaps because the metric system has never been (in parts) imposed by government in America.
* Thoroughly averted by [[Larry Niven]]. His [[Ring World]] (for example) is "six hundred million miles" in circumference.
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== Live Action TV ==
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* ''[[Star Trek:
** The novelisation for ''[[Star Trek IV:
* On ''[[Babylon 5]]'', the eponymous station is consistently described as "five miles long". This is, however, the only measurement on the show that does not use the metric system.
* ''[[
* The ''[[
{{quote| '''Zoe:''' ''(referring to their attempt to dock at Niska's skyplex)'' It's like throwing a dart, Jayne, and trying to hit a bulls-eye 6,000 miles away.}}
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** Also averted in ''[[Car Wars]]''. Miles, feet, and pounds abound in Autoduel America.
* Older versions of ''[[Rune Quest]]'' used metric for measurements.
* ''[[
* The 3rd edition rules for ''[[Star Wars]] d20'' used metres, when literally all other games based on the d20 system were based on the imperial system.
* Like the rest of its [[Firefly|parent franchise]], the ''Serenity'' RPG averts the trope, and more overtly than its predecessors. Speed is given in feet and miles, and warheads are measured in pounds, to name a few examples.
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== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Halo]]''. Mostly brought up in its [[Expanded Universe]].
** Whenever a waypoint was placed on your [[HUD]], it always measures distance in either metres or kilometres.<ref>Except, strangely enough, the PC version of ''Combat Evolved'', which uses feet and miles.</ref>
* The ''[[X (
== Webcomics ==
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