NASA goes metric, ...on the Moon...and beyond |
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NASA goes metric, ...on the Moon...and beyond |
 Jan 9 2007, 02:50 AM
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Nasa goes metric : http://www.space.com/news/070108_moon_metric.html Hope they'll not kill our favorites like :Football fields, pools volume, cel-phone size. OK, don't get me started. That's good news anyway. -------------------- |
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Jan 9 2007, 03:26 AM
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About time, too. I always thought that "feet per second" was a ridiculous & cumbersome way to describe spacecraft velocity, to say nothing of the unnecessary complication of converting these units in base 12 (or worse) for other applications. Just a bit disgusted that it took almost eight years after the loss of MCO to do this.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 28 2007, 08:36 PM
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Yeah I remember when the Lockheed Martin Mars lander got lost
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Feb 28 2007, 09:23 PM
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QUOTE (climber @ Jan 8 2007, 09:50 PM)  Hope they'll not kill our favorites like :Football fields, pools volume, cel-phone size. Those are the journalist system of measure... a system in which neither metric or imperial units will do: http://www.unsoughtinput.com/index.php/200...-metric-system/ And I must add: Energy -- Hiroshima Bombs Mass -- Elephants, Whales, Jupiters |
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Feb 28 2007, 09:47 PM
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Hey, remember that there are only 6 billions people that do not live in US and most of them don't know how much is big a Football Field or Manatthan Island...
I propose pizza as the unit of measure of lenght, mass and volume. Should be more universal! -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Feb 28 2007, 11:44 PM
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Good move by NASA. You know what they say, 28.35 grams of prevention is worth 0.45 kilograms of cure.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Feb 28 2007, 11:47 PM
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QUOTE (dilo @ Feb 28 2007, 01:47 PM) I propose pizza as the unit of measure of lenght, mass and volume. Should be more universal! ..and a larger unit would be a gondola or a Ferrari, right? -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Mar 1 2007, 06:51 AM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Mar 1 2007, 12:47 AM) ..and a larger unit would be a gondola or a Ferrari, right? Exactly! though you have to specify which model of Ferrari...  
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