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To: HPilot who wrote (19918)	1/30/2008 4:18:06 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (4) of 36917

Perhaps you skimmed over my post too quickly. In the UK, we S.I. units for all calculations. More on that in a moment. I did say... sometimes quoted but never used for calculations i.e if you buy a sport car in the UK, the salesman will always tell you how many horsepower the engine has. Kilowatts is a boring unit by comparison. I am really surprised why anyone would use anything else in calculations apart from S.I. units. I noted that many people still use imperial units in the USA. This must lead to all sorts of problems. This was a big eye opener... We're not in the blame game," said Thomas Gavin, deputy director for space and Earth science at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "A single error should not bring down a $125 million mission." He did say, however, that NASA operates using metric units, "and has for a long time." space.com

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