The usenet group, alt.sysadmin.recovery always provides gems I would miss elsewhere. The metric sucks web site is a good example. I am agnostic about the debate except to mention that I have never heard a good argument for having both systems which is where my birth country is stuck. Locally , we are all metric and a good thing too.
The comparison between metric and imperial measurement is amusing not least because they authors insist on calling it 'English' which it is not. The strains of a techno society come to the fore, for example, who would have said that Word users are metric people whilst 'vi' geeks are firmly feet and inches.
When I do get to space I do not want thrust calculated in furlongs per fortnight and fed into a computer system expecting Newtons per hour. Under those circumstances, I will bring out my slide rule for the edification and education of the gullible masses.
2 comments:
there is no such thing as newtons per hour. Likewise with foot pounds of pressure. Early NASA was exclusively USC, including the moon landing
the moon landing was a fake
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