With very few (and very misguided) exceptions, no country in the world allows a
'free-for-all' in terms of measurement (primarily weights and measures)
legislation, regardless of how 'libertarian' they are. WM has always been
decreed and defined (and never on a voluntary basis) ever since the
Well, the law would let Arizona do whatever the hell they want. Unfortunately,
they apparently want Customary.
Road signage is controlled by the MUTCD (Manual for Uniform Traffic Control
Devices). In the spirit of perfect duality the Federal government allows the
signs themselves to be of
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Dear Brian:
The draft Management Directive on units of measurement has been brought to my
attention.
As a veteran of ten years service at NASA-MSFC, and author of NASA SP-7012,
before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
where I did upper
Eugene,
Also please forward your email to Jeffrey Hanley, the NASA
Constellation program manager. I was unable to find a NASA email for
him, but he's on LinkedIn if anyone has an account there:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeff-hanley/b/556/6b4
On Monday, everyone on this list is to pick
Here we are in the 21st century with a history making President who
promised change.
I just heard that NASA intends to stay with the un-modern, un-
scientific, incoherent, 19th century English set of measurement units
for its Constellation program, the program that is to replace the
space
Good idea. We should all write. The body text of my letter follows:
I have just read that NASA plans to return to english units (US Customary)
as their primary units of measure on a space mission that involves cooperation
with other country's space agencies..
We've lost NASA. I have to say that for me, at least, I consider this to be a
watershed moment, and something of a final defeat. You could make a case that
the critical final defeat came earlier (state DOTs, etc.), but NASA was still
there as a bastion of reason, and it seemed they were
Replacing metric signs is completely understandable since it will spend
stimulus funds. The object of stimulus funding is to spend money and
create jobs for any project regardless of productivity or need. A purpose of
stimulus funding is to put the US further into debt. Replacing
Apparently, the wasting money argument has some traction. This article
reports the decision has been put on hold by the governor and is under review.
http://www.pddnet.com/news-ap-i-19-metric-signs-change-on-hold-pending-review-053009/
--- On Fri, 5/29/09, Stan Jakuba jak...@snet.net wrote:
But wait.we could get Jerry to be militant. That would do it I think. They'd immediately see the wrong of their ways if he were involved.Seriously though, this boggles my mind. I'm serious when I say, we should all email and call the guy...let's start a grassroots effort here. Get
I strongly agree that mandatory conversion in the only answer, but I also
believe it will not happen in the US within the lifetimes of anyone reading
this. The US metric conversion debacle of the last 40 years makes for an
interesting case study in American government. In short, I think our
Interesting also who the primary contractor is. Lockheed Martin.same contractor that built the doomed Mars Climate Orbiter due to Metric to English conversion issues. I'm sure NASA came under serious pressure by Lockheed Martin to allow English units.there is more to this story I'm
On 2009-05-29, at 16:11-0700, John M. Steele wrote:
Unbelievable.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=31353
Quoted from link:
Subject: New Management Directive on Units
All,
You've all heard the news that we're going back to English as the
primary unit of measure. Attached is
Gentlemen:
Here is the answer I just got from someone at NASA Watch. I am not familiar
with their politics or perspective regarding NASA, but his answer seems quite
plausible.
Bad news all around.
Ezra
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From: Keith Cowing kcow...@spaceref.com
To: ezra
Here's my letter to Obama:
I saw today that NASA plans on putting our astronauts lives at risk by
using customary measurements as their primary measurement system for
the Constellation Program (instead of using exclusively SI). This
means we're going to end up with another Mars Orbiter
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