On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:56:39 +0100, Casper Bang <[email protected]>
wrote:
Name calling aside, it *is* a little funky how the US prefers to go their
own way rather than converting to the standardized metric system. Yes
it's
going to confuse old and conservative people for a time, just as it has
in
the past other places, but just get it over with once and for all.
Unfortunately I did not hear this item in Obama's inauguration speech
(but
it was nice and unprecedented to hear about green energy).
Well, let's forget politicians declarations, please. They are just plain
void, in every country. For the record, just after the re-election Obama
said a very different thing, that is the creation of jobs, when in
contrast with green energy, comes first (actually, I believe it's the only
thing that I agree about with Obama). Given that USA plans a lot about
shale gas & oil you guess...
We probably all remember the famous software bug* that caused the
international Mars Climate Orbiter probe to crash into Mars, due to NASA
issuing thrust instructions in lbs rather than newtons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
*Technically this was not a bug nor a lack of specification, but a human
error based on culture, however it would not have happened if everyone
agreed on the primary quantities/units.
Correct, but I wonder also about testing... :-) Is it possible that the
problem couldn't be detected by them?
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