Re: [OT] Interesting?
Hi Dan, you wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Lewis"
>
>
>>> From: Juergen Luethje [mailto:j.lue at gmx.de]
>>> Hi Matt, you wrote:
>>>
> <snip snip snip>
>>
>> A good point, and I think I stumbled on to this above. Perhaps we need to
>> be more flexible, and try to find the proper base for the proper task.
>> After all, computer scientists move pretty easily between base-10 and
>> base-16, so why not with other disciplines? The world seems to do OK
>> converting between lots of different currencies (and since even Americans
>> can convert between metric and non-metric measurements, it can't be that
>> hard, right :).
>
> Well, NASA *does* sometimes have difficulty with that (or was that JPL?)
> :)
As I mentioned on July 26, it apparently was a faulty communication
between Lockheed Martin and NASA:
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
Price: $125 million -- now look at my signature! *gg*
Best regards,
Juergen
--
The difference between men and boys
is the price of their toys.
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