On Wednesday 13 June 2007 14:03:51 Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:33:12PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > Even in the US all legitimate science and engineering is done in SI > > units. > > Suurre... That's why in 1999 the NASA Mars orbiter didn't crash > because one (NASA) team worked in metric units and the other (private > contractor) in imperial units. I am happy to very brutally assert that the team who didn't use SI was not doing legitimate science or engineering. But whether it's from unskilled employees or bad management, it's quite unfortunate. =( -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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