When the narrator said "20 meters” the distance, displayed in green, showed “20.2” without the unit of measurement, obviously meters.
I agree with “kilopascal" that it is deplorable to hear the dumbing down of metric data. SpaceX is “metric only” in its designs and operations. Unfortunately, some other organizations in the US have not yet become *metric only* in narrations for public listening! Eugene Mechtly. On Sep 26, 2014, at 2:22 PM, cont...@metricpioneer.com<mailto:cont...@metricpioneer.com> wrote: Here is a five-minute You Tube video: Dragon Cargo Ship Arrives and Grapples at the International Space Station. The narrator starts off saying "We see Dragon at 20 meters" but then gives distances in feet thereafter. The text below video mentions 5000 pounds of supplies. I certainly wish the SpaceX effort were totally metric, but some people just can't seem to let feet go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuTS49qLL-0 I think it is absolutely great that America uses SpaceX instead of relying on Russia, especially since we have all those sanctions in place against Russia over the Crimea situation. Thanks Eugene Mechtly for sharing very informative message about SpaceX with us. David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com<http://www.MetricPioneer.com> 503-428-4917 ----- Message from "mechtly, eugene a" <mech...@illinois.edu<mailto:mech...@illinois.edu>> --------- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:52:24 +0000 From: "mechtly, eugene a" <mech...@illinois.edu<mailto:mech...@illinois.edu>> Reply-To: mech...@illinois.edu<mailto:mech...@illinois.edu> Subject: [USMA:54390] Recent SpaceX Cargo Flight to the ISS To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu<mailto:usma@colostate.edu>> The most recent cargo flight to the International Space Station (ISS) by SpaceX can be view in a Youtube Video. Note that flight date are narrated in metric-only units of measurement; meters (m), kilometers (km), meters per second (m/s), and kilometers per second (km/s). There are no units of measurement from outside the SI! SpaceX has recently won a contract with NASA for the transportation of astronauts to the ISS (beginning in 2017), and claims to be well ahead of (“light years” ahead of) the other contract winner in space launch technology (according to the interview broadcast repeatedly by the CNN). Transportation of both astronauts, as well as cargo, will then (in 2017) no longer depend on Russian launch vehicles. Eugene Mechtly ----- End message from "mechtly, eugene a" <mech...@illinois.edu<mailto:mech...@illinois.edu>> -----
