Interesting one that . They have some Scientists in NASA , and Science uses the metric, .. unfortunately they also have plenty of Engineers with their sub contractors .wedded to the old scale. Maybe that's why they picked a simple number to keep both camps happy.
Brexit, for once some facts.
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I did check and the NASA website I found actually had both. But the number was probably set many years ago when miles were even more prevalent. I'm sure that all real science and engineering is in metric/SI - even in the USA. Except diameter of tyres... And tap fittings. Both of which snuck out and infected the world.
Like UK weather forecasts and media have spent decades giving Fahrenheit temperatures. No-one uses Fahrenheit any longer unless they are using a thermometer so calibrated. But the continued use in weather forecasts keeps it going many years past and rational basis.
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I can and I did disagree because they are untruths.
I'm not discounting or in any way critical of the achievements of travel beyond earth, they've all been amazing, but that doesn't mean they can be celebrated with untruths.
For example, and astronaut is literally a star traveller, i.e. between stars.
If we accept that one who travels within the solar system of our one star, the sun, is an astronaut, then we are all astronauts every time we hop on our bikes or walk down the road.
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Exactly, it's why his plane has wings and no ceramic re-entry heat shield.
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It was a good result, Italy have been remarkable thoughout this competition and before, 34 wins in a row in international competition is special by any standards.
Being born English I would have liked us to win, but also being half Italian, I'm happy anyway, a winner either way.
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Yes, or at least, I would have been conned had I cared.
An interesting comment about engineers living in the past; the ones I knew who preferred imperial measurements have mostly died of old age by now!
Don't Engineers retire in the Emerald isle?
Or do you just have them stuffed and propped up at meetings?
I think it's reasonable to assume that is possible and perhaps even likely.
A number of symptoms are common to both illnesses, so where a vaccination relieves the common symptoms, there will be some benefits from either vaccination.
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There were so many oddities about non-metric measurements!An interesting comment about engineers living in the past; the ones I knew who preferred imperial measurements have mostly died of old age by now!
Don't Engineers retire in the Emerald isle?
Or do you just have them stuffed and propped up at meetings?
Like units of less than an inch being barleycorn (if anyone remembered it existed) and fractions or thous. That is, either using a system which was somewhat awkward or dumping you into metric. How many, even of us who went through it all, could readily recite the measurements from zero to one as sixty-fourths, thirty-seconds, sixteenths, eighths, quarters and halfs of an inch?
Even now, we see major corporations, such as Apple, referring to their 12.9 inch screen iPad! A good mix of non-metric and decimal in one measurement.
And the loss of the $125 million Mars climate orbiter, due to the mixing of imperial with metric:
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Not sure that follows. A vast proportion of infectious diseases cause an elevated temperature, tiredness and headache. But the likelihood of vaccinations for any one of them helping with all the others seems low, to me. Or at least, not predicated on similarity of those symptoms.
Technically, I suspect it was
United States customary units
rather than Imperial. Ask GIIIR...
..Oyster , I was being a bit tongue in cheek .. you might recall the NASA mission where the Parachutes deployed after the payload had nose dived into the surface. A little matter of replacing metres with feet ( ooh I see you did)
Ah, meetings. That's one thing the sceptre ******* isle majors on. 26 months until early retirement for me and the thought of not going to another meeting feels impossibly good.An interesting comment about engineers living in the past; the ones I knew who preferred imperial measurements have mostly died of old age by now!
Don't Engineers retire in the Emerald isle?
Or do you just have them stuffed and propped up at meetings?
.. That's just the Civils ,.. they never die, just smell that way.An interesting comment about engineers living in the past; the ones I knew who preferred imperial measurements have mostly died of old age by now!
Don't Engineers retire in the Emerald isle?
Or do you just have them stuffed and propped up at meetings?
When one talks of air conditioning units efficiency and performance in terms of Tons of US barrels of oil equivalent , , you are what our farming community say "sucking diesel."
My favourite is the whisky bottle, 26 2/3 floz in UK, 1/5 gallon in US
Even allowing for the difference in pints (20floz in UK, 16floz in US) , how can 26 2/3 be 1/5th of anything sensible? (Answer later if someone else don't post it)