Dylan Sutton wrote:
> Sheesh, you Americans! The flash manufacturers all seem to give their GN
> in metres, why do you have to go and bring feet into it?
> Pounds, ounces, stones, gallons, feet, inches, degrees fahrenheit, when
> will you stop using these antiquated measures?? Unnecessary conversion of
> units is just asking for trouble, as NASA learnt to their $400M chagrin...
> Dylan
> PS you still have nearly 10 months to enter the 20th century...get cracking!
>
Oh, no! Holy kilopascal, Batman! Now an SI-chauvenist flame war! I've built a
boat in centimeters and designed a missile in millimeters, but I buy my milk in
gallons, thank you very much!
And it was $165 million not $400 mil! For insight into the REAL problem with
the Mars Climate Orbiter, see the December issue of IEEE Spectrum. Hint: it
wasn't really a failure to convert units, despite NASA's attempt to blame
Lockheed Martin.
OM content: well, I can't think of any, except that all of my Zuikos are metric.
Regards to my metric friends, including Dylan,
Gary Edwards
Happy Texas Independance Day! Remember the Alamo!
March 2nd
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