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I work at NASA and sadly, we do still use Imperial units for many things. It's a travesty.
by rootbear 10y ago
I work at NASA and sadly, we do still use Imperial units for many things. It's a travesty.
- logfromblammo 10y agoIn military aviation mission planning, it's even worse. We have to support any damn-fool unit some random major might want to see on the printed reports. A length might need to display in feet, yards, meters, kilometers, statute miles, nautical miles, US flight level (hundreds of feet by barometer reading), AGL vs. MSL, etc. Sometimes, people mix customary, nautical, and SI units, such as by showing distances in km, altitudes in feet, and speed in knots (NM/h). If I were ever to somehow become absolute tyrant over the entire Earth, my first edict would make open and notorious use of non-SI units a capital crime, then I'd go live in my imperial hermit shack on a remote mountainside (paradoxically, one with a >1 Gb/s network connection) until my minions finished mopping up the last of the blood.
- TylerH 10y agoI enjoy the literary irony here of you imposing a ban on Imperial units and yet you'd go live in an Imperial shack.
- witty_username 10y agoDoes the software store unit information and calculates with units (like say 1 m / 1 s = 1 m/s) or does it directly operate on the numerical value (so just 1/1 = 1)? I think the first way should be fast enough with today's processors (but IIRC the processors on the Rovers are slower).
- Fiahil 10y ago.. I don't understand how you guys can get something up in space. That's amazing. It's either a remarkable feat of engineering or an gigantic 42 gallons barrel of liquid luck.
- zymhan 10y ago:(