How many more orbiters need to go down before they realize old units don't work? Hopefully they'll realize they made a mistake when they're converting furlongs to fathoms.
--- On Sat, 5/30/09, Bill Potts <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bill Potts <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:45127] Re: NASA Going English To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 12:05 AM #yiv774182609 P { MARGIN:0px;} They're out of their cotton-picking minds -- and at a time when it would be a good strategy to cooperate with the Russians, the British and the French on the hardware. Bill Bill Potts WFP Consulting Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 16:20 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:45125] Re: NASA Going English So, this is the "change we need"? Back to the 19th century???? ----- Original Message ----- From: "John M. Steele" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 4:11:49 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:45124] NASA Going English Unbelievable. http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=31353 Quoted from link: Subject: New Management Directive on Units All, You've all heard the news that we're going back to English as the primary unit of measure. Attached is the draft Management Directive. We're planning on bring this MD to the CxCB on 6/5/09. Please let me know if you have any issues.
