28 May
2010
28 May
'10
8:41 a.m.
Moving yet further OT...
On 28 May 2010 16:07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
the Imperial system, I feel a kinship with
centuries of history
> dating back to the ancient Romans rather than some idealistic 18th-
So that's why the Mars Climate Orbiter didn't use SI units for the
thrusters.
--
Pete Edwards
"It looks just like a Telefunken U-47" - Frank Zappa
or the spacing between rails on a railroad is
conveniently
expressed in whole feet.
Eh? I thought US railroad gauge was the same as the UK. (mostly).
0 degrees is a very cold day and
the temperature of my home freezer.
In the UK 0 degrees F is a national emergency :)
--and not some erroneous measurement of the earth's meridian. With