To continue this thread a bit.....check out this wonderful article.
It's from 2001, but the truths in it haven't changed much in 8 years. I found it worth sharing.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [USMA:45152] Re: NASA Going English
From: Paul Armstrong <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, May 30, 2009 6:27 pm
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
On 2009-05-29, at 16:11-0700, John M. Steele wrote:
> 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.
What a fucking mess. Now we're not just putting hundreds of millions
of dollars of hardware at risk, we're putting peoples lives at risk.
Notice that there's an email address in the message:
[email protected]
And that it says "Please let me know if you have any issues."
Sounds like a request for public comment to me.
Who has press contacts?
We need to write a press release on this (and otherwise make noise
press wise).
Paul
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