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If they hadn’t changed the standard, this could have been fodder for the plot of my nerdy action movie:

It has been two long years since the United States introduced the metric system. But not everyone agreed with this decision. A violent, well armed group of American anti-metrification activists have snuck into France and stolen Le Grand K. They’re led by Cletus Jonesby (John Lithgow), an ex-Navy SEAL who had founded a mercenary company called Global Defense Unlimited after retiring.

The opening of the film is a dramatic ten minute action scene, where Jonesby and Global Defense Unlimited break into the facility where Le Grand K is kept, killing dozens of Foreign Legion special forces troops, and steal it, escaping in a Black Hawk helicopter. The French military is about to shoot it down, but they call off the strike because they see one of their Legionnaires jumped onto the railing of the helicopter as it took off, and they don’t want to kill her. We see her wedding ring as she’s gripping on the edge, and Jonesby smashes her hands until she falls 1,000 feet 300 meters - a fatal plunge.

From his company’s global headquarters, a secret facility nestled somewhere in the Swiss Alps, Jonesby threatens to cut Le Grand K in half unless he is sent €500 billion and his company is given status as its own country.

At first, European and world leaders laugh it off, until Germany’s top physicist, Bertrand Messerschmitt (Rick Moranis) reveals that due to the interconnectivity of the Internet of Things, all machines’ definitions of mass is instantly updated according to any changes in Le Grand K’s mass, which is continually monitored by sophisticated sensors.

This means that if Jobesby alters Le Grand K, it will cause a global disaster as all airplanes, power plants, hospitals, factories, etc immediately and catastrophically fail because their mass calculations will be thrown off. (Cut to a scene where Messerschmitt shows a hushed group of European PMs the devastating projections of what would happen.)

The European Metrification Council convenes an emergency meeting, its first since D-Day in WWII when American and European forces had to work through their metric & non-metric differences for the invasion, and they decide to send in their best agent, the brash and controversial Francois Meter (Tom Cruise, attempting a French accent.) The world’s leaders are arguing over who should pay the ransom, or if it should be paid at all. Meter is considered a loose cannon among the council’s more straight-laced number crunchers, but he’s France’s best hope. And he’s out for vengeance, after finding out that his wife Claire Meter (Jennifer Lawrence), was the Foreign Legion colonel who died falling from the helicopter in the beginning of the movie.

Meter will be sent in to infiltrate Jonesby’s group by posing as an American anti-metric sympathizer named Miles Washington. Meter earned his Ph.D in theoretical Physics at Harvard (in only two years, despite seven being the norm,) where he also learned to pull off a very convincing American accent. His mission: recover Le Grand K, at all costs. Though heartbroken after losing the love of his life, he’ll be forced to partner up with the American Metrication Board’s Special Agent Elise Seville (Mila Kunis), who will pose as his alias’s wife.

Can Meter and Seville overcome Jonesby’s radical anti-metric organization, and their growing sexual tension, to recover Le Grand K? Or will the world be plunged into chaos and devastation if it is cut in half?

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Le Grand K

It’s been speculated that the reason he’d have propophol (however it’s spelled) every night was because ENS prevented him from sleeping normally. He had a lot of nose surgeries, and the speculation is that one of them caused him to get ENS.

I don’t think there’s any conclusive proof out there, unless it’s in some sealed medical records. So, it’s speculation only, but personally I believe MJ had it. I’m so glad I’ve never had nose surgery, ENS sounds terrifying.

Why would this cause problems with the TSA?

Holy crap, he got a photo ID in your name! Okay, that makes sense then.