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The Soviet Union, including the Red Army, has
used m/s universally before the SI - weather included.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 4:05
PM
Subject: [USMA:36412] Re: PBS Nova The
Great Robot Race
I watched the same show last night, and noticed what you
did. The narration completely sanitized the metric, but the board did
speak for itself.
Remek
On 3/30/06, Hillger,
Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I watched PBS Nova's The Great
Robot Race the other night. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/program.html
Although there was no mention of
metric usage in the show's narration that I remember, I did notice that the
Red Army contenders were using meters per second in programming their
vehicle speeds, as displayed on a board in their command center. At
one point there was a close up of that board, but no conversion or mention
of those numbers.
So, in spite of the non-metric
use in the narration, it was encouraging to see that behind the scenes that
metric prevails. This is another case where metric use is hidden from
the public, whereas in other cases the units are hidden by
conversion.
Don
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