NASA Finally Goes Metric

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

http://www.space.com/news/070108_moon_metric.html

    NASA Finally Goes Metric

When NASA returns astronauts to the Moon, the mission will be measured kilometers, not miles.

The agency has decided to use metric units for all operations on the lunar surface, according to a statement released today.


didnt they crash a robot because of units systems?

[Rocksteady]

Metric should be used all over the world, I was learned it in school about 5 years ago and I still make mistakes. Besides metric is more accurate isn't it?

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

Metric should be used all over the world, I was learned it in school about 5 years ago and I still make mistakes. Besides metric is more accurate isn't it?

i dont know
i guess you can do 0.005673 inches, and it stays accurate no?

on the other hand i still find "poetic" to use inches for people's height.

it's cool to say " im 6"1 " or something like that.

[Rocksteady]

Metric should be used all over the world, I was learned it in school about 5 years ago and I still make mistakes. Besides metric is more accurate isn't it?

i dont know
i guess you can do 0.005673 inches, and it stays accurate no?

on the other hand i still find "poetic" to use inches for people's height.

it's cool to say " im 6"1 " or something like that.

Yeah I guess. I'm 5,7 and a half so it isn't that cool for me, but I know what you mean.

[zman]

Maybe this could be the first step for the METRIC STYSTEM to be used in the states. One can only hope. It is not only more accurate but much EASIER to use.

[The Dog]

Maybe this could be the first step for the METRIC STYSTEM to be used in the states. One can only hope. It is not only more accurate but much EASIER to use.

I think in the 70s they tried and it just didn't stick, people are just  to used to how they've been doing it for years.

Its really not that hard to figure out - when I was in NZ/AUS after a few days when someone said "thats 5 meters away", I pretty much knew what they meant.

To each their own.  Does it really matter how you measure things!?!?!

[Prometheus]

canada is the happy medium..... i grew up on metric but learnt standard from my parents and later in college but we deal in all the measurements.... how far away is that building..... long distances are done in KM but when u get down to small measures... inches and centermeter meters and feet are used.... as a re mm..... and smaller measurements... but here where im at... we use time to measure distance.

the capital city is 63km away from me, but we meausre it as 45mins that is based on average speed for an average day....lol... directions are something to be heard. "well kings is about 8 mins from here when ya gets der head down toward da ultramar you can see it from the cornor, then cross over the road from there its about 15 min down the harbour on da right but if you can see da warf turn around cause you walked passed it and its about 2 mions back up from where you came

lol

[mikesc]

didnt they crash a robot because of units systems?

Since a few years NASA has been using both systems, depending on what to measure. That?s what caused the Mars orbiter to crash. I think they wanted to have a thruster performance of something in N*s and some supplier developed it for lbf*s.

[Prometheus]

The 'root cause' of the loss of the spacecraft was the failed translation of English units into metric units in a segment of ground-based, navigation-related mission software

[Axlfreek]

You know what they call a quearter pounder with cheese in Amsterdam  ?