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On October 10 2009 10:21 psion0011 wrote:
Yeah, they should really invent a unit between centimeters and meters.
Oh wai
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On October 10 2009 09:40 CharlieMurphy wrote:
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?
On October 10 2009 07:02 micronesia wrote:
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).
On October 10 2009 06:45 fanatacist wrote:
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?
On October 10 2009 06:23 fabiano wrote:
hahaha, blame USA for using a completely different metrics system from the rest of the world
On October 10 2009 05:23 fanatacist wrote:
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.
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.
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
Yeah.. I hope they really do. And call it something cool like CuteAngelmeter
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