28th April 2004, 1:41 PM
Ya know, due mostly to overworking and lack of decent time scheduling, but also to the thing I'm about to mention, NASA screwed up an entire billion dollar project purely because one part of the team was using metric and the other was using standard. Keeping the dead weight of standard around can result in screw ups. One might blame metric, but the fact is metric is the system the rest of the world uses. America is certainly a ruling nation, but when it comes to things like this, it's AMERICA that has to adapt. NASA now ONLY uses metric, so fortunatly it won't be happening again. Also, they aren't using the "faster better cheaper" mindset. Because, out of the three, you can only pick 2 :D.
Plus, what other system of measurement allows you to just add on prefixes to adjectives to really add to your language abilities? I'm reading over 50 gigafonzies!
Plus, what other system of measurement allows you to just add on prefixes to adjectives to really add to your language abilities? I'm reading over 50 gigafonzies!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)