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On October 10 2009 06:45 fanatacist wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2009 06:23 fabiano wrote:On October 10 2009 05:23 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 05:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
One of my engineering professors told our class that recently quite a few million dollars were wasted when NASA was working with some European agency and NASA did their stuff in American measurements instead of SI units.
I'm sure this crash bombing couldn't have a very significant effect on the moon though. This was in the 1980's iirc (might have been 1990's) and it was a joint venture with the Soviet Union/Russia to send a probe to Mars. Americans read the Soviet measurements as inches when they were in fact centimeters (or miles/kilometers, same principle), and ended up launching the probe too hard and it just exploded on Mars. GG. It was a multi-million, if not billion, dollar venture. hahaha, blame USA for using a completely different metrics system from the rest of the world  Yea, it's beyond retarded. The entire US measurement system is fucked. 5280 feet in a mile? 12 inches in a foot? What the fuck?
From http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/metric_system.html
"The metric system is a system of units for measurement developed in late 18th century France by the chemist Lavoisier to replace the disparate systems of measures then in use with a unified, natural and universal system."
It's no surprise that when the USA was settled and founded, a system other than the metric system became commonly used. The issue is really the difficulty of overcoming a change in system (which is not insignificant).
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obviously  sAviOr is behind this. with the after effects its gonna destroy everyone in 2009.
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We all know aliens exist and they probably just went to destroy some alien wave transmitter.
On October 10 2009 07:02 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2009 06:45 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 06:23 fabiano wrote:On October 10 2009 05:23 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 05:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
One of my engineering professors told our class that recently quite a few million dollars were wasted when NASA was working with some European agency and NASA did their stuff in American measurements instead of SI units.
I'm sure this crash bombing couldn't have a very significant effect on the moon though. This was in the 1980's iirc (might have been 1990's) and it was a joint venture with the Soviet Union/Russia to send a probe to Mars. Americans read the Soviet measurements as inches when they were in fact centimeters (or miles/kilometers, same principle), and ended up launching the probe too hard and it just exploded on Mars. GG. It was a multi-million, if not billion, dollar venture. hahaha, blame USA for using a completely different metrics system from the rest of the world Yea, it's beyond retarded. The entire US measurement system is fucked. 5280 feet in a mile? 12 inches in a foot? What the fuck? From http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/metric_system.html"The metric system is a system of units for measurement developed in late 18th century France by the chemist Lavoisier to replace the disparate systems of measures then in use with a unified, natural and universal system." It's no surprise that when the USA was settled and founded, a system other than the metric system became commonly used. The issue is really the difficulty of overcoming a change in system (which is not insignificant).
I guess it's that 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000 is slightly more logical than 1, 12, 5280 and whatever.
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There isn't a single place the United States won't bomb.
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On October 10 2009 08:06 Shikyo wrote:We all know aliens exist and they probably just went to destroy some alien wave transmitter. Show nested quote +On October 10 2009 07:02 micronesia wrote:On October 10 2009 06:45 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 06:23 fabiano wrote:On October 10 2009 05:23 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 05:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
One of my engineering professors told our class that recently quite a few million dollars were wasted when NASA was working with some European agency and NASA did their stuff in American measurements instead of SI units.
I'm sure this crash bombing couldn't have a very significant effect on the moon though. This was in the 1980's iirc (might have been 1990's) and it was a joint venture with the Soviet Union/Russia to send a probe to Mars. Americans read the Soviet measurements as inches when they were in fact centimeters (or miles/kilometers, same principle), and ended up launching the probe too hard and it just exploded on Mars. GG. It was a multi-million, if not billion, dollar venture. hahaha, blame USA for using a completely different metrics system from the rest of the world Yea, it's beyond retarded. The entire US measurement system is fucked. 5280 feet in a mile? 12 inches in a foot? What the fuck? From http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/metric_system.html"The metric system is a system of units for measurement developed in late 18th century France by the chemist Lavoisier to replace the disparate systems of measures then in use with a unified, natural and universal system." It's no surprise that when the USA was settled and founded, a system other than the metric system became commonly used. The issue is really the difficulty of overcoming a change in system (which is not insignificant). I guess it's that 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000 is slightly more logical than 1, 12, 5280 and whatever.
True, but not really relevant as I was explaining.
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It's about time we bombed the moon, the last place commies can be hiding is now no longer safe!!!
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Loool....
"what if the moon is hollow ???"
Yea good thing we have 500 years of gravitation to know how much the moon weighs and how objects are formed...
People commentating on these news IRL are so annoying to convince... they saw the movie "The Time Machine" and are thinking that's what's gonna happen.
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On October 10 2009 07:02 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2009 06:45 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 06:23 fabiano wrote:On October 10 2009 05:23 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 05:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
One of my engineering professors told our class that recently quite a few million dollars were wasted when NASA was working with some European agency and NASA did their stuff in American measurements instead of SI units.
I'm sure this crash bombing couldn't have a very significant effect on the moon though. This was in the 1980's iirc (might have been 1990's) and it was a joint venture with the Soviet Union/Russia to send a probe to Mars. Americans read the Soviet measurements as inches when they were in fact centimeters (or miles/kilometers, same principle), and ended up launching the probe too hard and it just exploded on Mars. GG. It was a multi-million, if not billion, dollar venture. hahaha, blame USA for using a completely different metrics system from the rest of the world Yea, it's beyond retarded. The entire US measurement system is fucked. 5280 feet in a mile? 12 inches in a foot? What the fuck? From http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/metric_system.html"The metric system is a system of units for measurement developed in late 18th century France by the chemist Lavoisier to replace the disparate systems of measures then in use with a unified, natural and universal system." It's no surprise that when the USA was settled and founded, a system other than the metric system became commonly used. The issue is really the difficulty of overcoming a change in system (which is not insignificant).
To be fair to standard vs metric it's pretty fucking stupid to measure anything from the size of a pencil eraser to the height of a man in the same units. Centimeters just don't cut it and meters are too big.
BoT, are there gonna be any images/videos of the whole thing as it is unfolded?
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I died a little inside. We have a recession, and NASA is spending millions on bombing the moon... jeez...
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On October 10 2009 09:40 CharlieMurphy wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2009 07:02 micronesia wrote:On October 10 2009 06:45 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 06:23 fabiano wrote:On October 10 2009 05:23 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 05:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
One of my engineering professors told our class that recently quite a few million dollars were wasted when NASA was working with some European agency and NASA did their stuff in American measurements instead of SI units.
I'm sure this crash bombing couldn't have a very significant effect on the moon though. This was in the 1980's iirc (might have been 1990's) and it was a joint venture with the Soviet Union/Russia to send a probe to Mars. Americans read the Soviet measurements as inches when they were in fact centimeters (or miles/kilometers, same principle), and ended up launching the probe too hard and it just exploded on Mars. GG. It was a multi-million, if not billion, dollar venture. hahaha, blame USA for using a completely different metrics system from the rest of the world Yea, it's beyond retarded. The entire US measurement system is fucked. 5280 feet in a mile? 12 inches in a foot? What the fuck? From http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/metric_system.html"The metric system is a system of units for measurement developed in late 18th century France by the chemist Lavoisier to replace the disparate systems of measures then in use with a unified, natural and universal system." It's no surprise that when the USA was settled and founded, a system other than the metric system became commonly used. The issue is really the difficulty of overcoming a change in system (which is not insignificant). To be fair to standard vs metric it's pretty fucking stupid to measure anything from the size of a pencil eraser to the height of a man in the same units. Centimeters just don't cut it and meters are too big. BoT, are there gonna be any images/videos of the whole thing as it is unfolded?
Yeah, they should really invent a unit between centimeters and meters.
Oh wai
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On October 10 2009 06:45 fanatacist wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2009 06:23 fabiano wrote:On October 10 2009 05:23 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 05:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
One of my engineering professors told our class that recently quite a few million dollars were wasted when NASA was working with some European agency and NASA did their stuff in American measurements instead of SI units.
I'm sure this crash bombing couldn't have a very significant effect on the moon though. This was in the 1980's iirc (might have been 1990's) and it was a joint venture with the Soviet Union/Russia to send a probe to Mars. Americans read the Soviet measurements as inches when they were in fact centimeters (or miles/kilometers, same principle), and ended up launching the probe too hard and it just exploded on Mars. GG. It was a multi-million, if not billion, dollar venture. hahaha, blame USA for using a completely different metrics system from the rest of the world Yea, it's beyond retarded. The entire US measurement system is fucked. 5280 feet in a mile? 12 inches in a foot? What the fuck?
Don't blame us, we didn't make it up. You can blame us for continuing to use it sure, but the 5280, 12 and so forth was already in place when the United States began.
And dumb as it is, 5 foot something or 6 foot something tells me height in a way that's nicely understandable. I know the approximate height of each continent's highest mountain in feet, am used to mph etc. Intertia, thanks to idiots like me, keeps the imperial system going. Not in science though (NASA subcontractor screwup not withstanding) where you have to know the metric system. And I do know it, it just doesn't feel as natural. But the imperial system should just slowly erode away on its own, perhaps with a mixture of units for a while (as in the UK, with road signs in miles and mph still last time I checked).
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On October 10 2009 10:06 Sharp-eYe wrote:
I died a little inside. We have a recession, and NASA is spending millions on bombing the moon... jeez...
How long do you think they have been planning this experiment for? If you are all for a complete freeze on NASA related research, then you can make that claim, but you shouldn't just wait until someone reports on some experiment and then suddenly throw up your hands and say, how could you have spent money on that?
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Metric system should just invent new measurement that is 30 cm which would be used to measure anything you would normally measure in feet. I mean I don't go around telling people I'm 74 inches tall when they ask. It's absurd.
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On October 10 2009 10:50 CharlieMurphy wrote:
Metric system should just invent new measurement that is 30 cm which would be used to measure anything you would normally measure in feet.
The metric system is fine. I don't see why you feel a need to change it. There is no need to mess with meters and centimeters, or decimeters for that matter.
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On October 10 2009 10:06 Sharp-eYe wrote:
I died a little inside. We have a recession, and NASA is spending millions on bombing the moon... jeez...
yeah lets stop scientific progress
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On October 10 2009 10:50 CharlieMurphy wrote:
Metric system should just invent new measurement that is 30 cm which would be used to measure anything you would normally measure in feet. I mean I don't go around telling people I'm 74 inches tall when they ask. It's absurd.
yeah, because we couldnt go around saying 3 decimeters all day now could we? real nuisance..
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Its a shame they don't have the technology to land people on the moon and bring them back..wait didn't they do that 50 years ago?
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On October 10 2009 11:07 SiDX wrote:
Its a shame they don't have the technology to land people on the moon and bring them back..wait didn't they do that 50 years ago?
Well it was 40, but regardless I don't see what your point is...
Actually if they had to do it again it would be a real problem... the old methods, equipment, etc, all wouldn't work nowadays.
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On October 10 2009 10:31 MamiyaOtaru wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2009 06:45 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 06:23 fabiano wrote:On October 10 2009 05:23 fanatacist wrote:On October 10 2009 05:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
One of my engineering professors told our class that recently quite a few million dollars were wasted when NASA was working with some European agency and NASA did their stuff in American measurements instead of SI units.
I'm sure this crash bombing couldn't have a very significant effect on the moon though. This was in the 1980's iirc (might have been 1990's) and it was a joint venture with the Soviet Union/Russia to send a probe to Mars. Americans read the Soviet measurements as inches when they were in fact centimeters (or miles/kilometers, same principle), and ended up launching the probe too hard and it just exploded on Mars. GG. It was a multi-million, if not billion, dollar venture. hahaha, blame USA for using a completely different metrics system from the rest of the world Yea, it's beyond retarded. The entire US measurement system is fucked. 5280 feet in a mile? 12 inches in a foot? What the fuck? Don't blame us, we didn't make it up. You can blame us for continuing to use it sure, but the 5280, 12 and so forth was already in place when the United States began. And dumb as it is, 5 foot something or 6 foot something tells me height in a way that's nicely understandable. I know the approximate height of each continent's highest mountain in feet, am used to mph etc. Intertia, thanks to idiots like me, keeps the imperial system going. Not in science though (NASA subcontractor screwup not withstanding) where you have to know the metric system. And I do know it, it just doesn't feel as natural. But the imperial system should just slowly erode away on its own, perhaps with a mixture of units for a while (as in the UK, with road signs in miles and mph still last time I checked).
Its nicely understandable to you because you were taught this since early (dude, i hope i didnt mess the verbs here). I was taught always in meters, centimeters, decimeters, kilometers, etc, so m, km and so on sounds very understandable to me. Its like measuring temperature, im used to use Celsius, so when i watch american weather forecasting and they show up the temperatures in Farenheith im just like "what? 80F? wtf? is it gonna be cool or heat??"
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On October 10 2009 10:50 CharlieMurphy wrote:
Metric system should just invent new measurement that is 30 cm which would be used to measure anything you would normally measure in feet. I mean I don't go around telling people I'm 74 inches tall when they ask. It's absurd.
...only because you've grown up used to speaking in feet. If they never existed and there was only inches you would be perfectly fine with that! People and their choices.
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