Bill, sir: This precisely is the CAUSE of failure.
NASA has promised to put the remaining recommendations in place by the end of >September, when the first of two new rovers will be about halfway in its 311->million-mile trip to Mars. The second rover is scheduled for launch this month.Using.....<about halfway in its 311-million mile trip to Mars>.....and understanding 'Miles'.
Apparently, there is no hurry, as US - shall I say 'FFU-ists' feel. We have a saying.....
"Aaj kare so 'kal' kar; 'kal' kare so parson
Itni bhi qya jaldi hai; jab jeena hai barson!"
to mean..... what you can finish today, postpone it to day-after; where is the hurry, since we got to live 'sevral more years to come'!
This is not American failure, but 'winners' across the fense have a reason to laugh, at Metrication and Metric Reform.
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
*****The New Calendar Rhyme*****
Thirty days in July, September:
April, June, November, December;
All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
Till leap year gives the whole week READY:
Is it not time to MODIFY or change to make it perennial, Oh Daddy!And make the calendar work with Leap Week Rule! ***** ***** ***** *****
From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:26272] NASA Still Dragging its Feet on Metrication Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:01:58 -0700
Thanks to Bruce Barrow for this link. (He sent it to members of an IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee.)
http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBUWWMYQHD.html
Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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