To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.off-topic.debateOpen lugnet.off-topic.debate in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Off-Topic / Debate / 10151
10150  |  10152
Subject: 
Re: Ok, why such anti-American sentiment? (Was Re: the metric system)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 2 May 2001 13:12:41 GMT
Viewed: 
294 times
  
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Low writes:

On the organisational level using the wrong units
can waste over $125 million.[1]
[1] http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/orbiter_errorupd_093099.htm

  Well, to be fair, it wasn't simply a matter of using the wrong units; it's
that both teams didn't use the *same* wrong units.  8^)

     Dave!



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Ok, why such anti-American sentiment? (Was Re: the metric system)
 
(...) On the personal level it's not so important. In Australia (metric for thirty years or so) people's height and (less often) weight is still usually described in imperial units. On the organisational level using the wrong units can waste over (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

30 Messages in This Thread:













Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR