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Even if it did cost that much, did they learn nothing from the mars orbiter disaster? Pick a standard unit and stick to it. And make damn sure all your contract
by jrwoodruff 17y ago
Even if it did cost that much, did they learn nothing from the mars orbiter disaster? Pick a standard unit and stick to it. And make damn sure all your contractors use the same unit. Seems like the unit that every single country in the world is on would be a good one to choose.
- yannis 17y agoIf my memory is correct something very similar happened also during the testing of the first 'Star Wars' missiles. The given cost is pure bull. Autocad has a facility where one can convert from metric to imperial dimensions. It would not cost that much to re-design the software to carry out the conversions automatically, including re-selection of standard components. (Except if NASA is still using rotring pens and tracing paper). One issue that would crop up though is some very odd looking sizes. Assume a rod of 1". This will translate to 25.4 mm, no sane Engineer in the rest of the world would specify a size like this, but would go for 25.0 mm. Having studied both systems I can assure you that the Imperial System adds easily 6 months to an Engineer's training.