I hate to stir up the spelling discussion again, but sending comments to NASA using non-US-English spellings of the units makes us look like people from outside the US having a beef with the agency's presentation. The place is already intransigent, let's not give them any more ammunition to say "no metric for us."
Remek On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Bill Hooper <[email protected]> wrote: > Another case of resistance to metric units from NASA. > Below is my reply including the quotes from NASA's press release to which I > was referring. > > Bill Hooper > Member, US Metric Association > www.metric.org > > ======================== > > Would it kill you to let us know what those figures are in metric in > addition to (or preferably instead of) King George's Olde English measures? > > You [NASA] wrote, in RELEASE : 11-079 - NASA'S MESSENGER Spacecraft Begins > Historic Orbit Around Mercury > > ... slowing the spacecraft by 1,929 miles per hour ... The rendezvous took > place about 96 million miles from Earth. > ... through its 4.9-billion-mile journey. > > > > What's wrong with: > ... slowing the spacecraft by 3104 km/h ... The rendezvous took place about > 154 million kilometres from Earth. > ... through its 7.9-billion-kilometre journey. > > or even simpler > > ... slowing the spacecraft by 3.104 Mm/h ... The rendezvous took place > about 154 Gm from Earth. > ... through its 7.9-Tm journey. > > where Mm = megametres (1 Mm = 1000 km) > and Gm = gigametres (1 Gm = 1 000 Mm) > and Tm = terrametres (1 Tm = 1000 Gm) > > >
