AW: [ RadSafe ] SI; Now or never?

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>  One of the more spectacular outgrowths of your splendid isolation was the deplorable loss
> ( after 1990! ) of quite an expensive Mars satellite - wrong or forgotten meter to feet
> (or km to miles) conversion, if I remember correctly.

Well, this has little to do with unit conversion, it is plain ineptitude....

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>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Rainer.Facius at dlr.de
>  Subject: AW: [ RadSafe ] SI; Now or never?
>  Sent: Feb 17 '06 17:36
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>  One of the more spectacular outgrowths of your splendid isolation was the deplorable loss
> ( after 1990! ) of quite an expensive Mars satellite - wrong or forgotten meter to feet
> (or km to miles) conversion, if I remember correctly.
>  
>  Regards, Rainer
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>  Dr. Rainer Facius
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>  Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl im Auftrag von Dimiter Popoff
>  Gesendet: Fr 17.02.2006 09:21
>  An: A Karam; John R Johnson; radsafe at radlab.nl
>  Betreff: RE: [ RadSafe ] SI; Now or never?
>  
>  
>  
>  I suspected something like that :-).
>  My guess is that the radiation units are those taking about the
>  least effort to switch. I doubt there are many people who
>  grew up in the US and think millimeters rather than fractions
>  of an inch, litres rather than gallons/pints (whatever....:-),
>  kmph rather than mph etc...
>  The chip industry has made the move - they just specify
>  dimensions both in millimters and inches, and, well, we all
>  use Volts, Amps, Watts etc.
>  I do wonder how it is with temperatures. Those of the
>  listmembers doing lab work must be used to degree Celsius (and/or
>  Kelvin), however, when it comes to weather - do they still think
>  Fahrenheit? My guess is they have developed a precise
>  calculator to do the conversion a long time ago (I have
>  to struggle every time I am confronted with degree F,
>  although evenually I manage it... :-).
>  
>  Dimiter
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>  >  -------Original Message-------
>  >  From: A  Karam <paksbi at rit.edu>
>  >  Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] SI; Now or never?
>  >  Sent: Feb 17 '06 06:04
>  >
>  >  My understanding is that the first bill to change the US to SI units was introduced in the early 1800s.  Still working on the details....
>  >
>  >  Andy
>  >
>  >  P. Andrew Karam, Ph.D., CHP
>  >  Assistant Professor
>  >  Rochester Institute of Technology
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>  >  ________________________________
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>  >  From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl on behalf of John R Johnson
>  >  Sent: Thu 2/16/2006 21:39
>  >  To: Radsafe
>  >  Subject: [ RadSafe ] SI; Now or never?
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  RADSAFERS
>  >
>  >  When will the US convert to the SI units? If I recall correctly, the
>  >  conversion was going to be completed in ~1990.
>  >
>  >  What is the current status?
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