Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ames!elroy!devvax!jplpro!leem From: leem@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Metric vs. English units Message-ID: <342@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 16:11:29 EDT Article-I.D.: devvax.342 Posted: Tue Sep 8 16:11:29 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Sep-87 06:45:17 EDT References: <3471@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <2047@zeus.TEK.COM> <2805@phri.UUCP> <287@nuchat.UUCP> <1379@imagen.UUCP> Sender: news@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV Reply-To: leem@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA. Lines: 26 Xref: mnetor sci.space:2809 sci.space.shuttle:302 In article <1379@imagen.UUCP> fjd@imagen.UUCP (Fred Drinkwater) writes: :In article <287@nuchat.UUCP>, steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) writes: :<> Don't kid tourself. The bureau of standards changed the definition :<> of "inch" to 3.54 centimeters. Guess how many parts on the space ^ :<> station are spec'd at multiples of 354 millimeters? yech. ^ : :No wonder the GAO claims cost estimates for the station keep :going up! This might also explain why my European car seems so :small inside my American garage. Hmm....... possibilities for :making bunches 'a cash here ..... there must be ... : : Fred [ future billionaires club dues now due ] Drinkwater I can understand that, especially since there are 2.45 centimeters (254 mm) to the inch! Lee -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |Lee F. Mellinger Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA| |4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 818/393-0516 FTS 977-0516 | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |UUCP: {cit-vax,elroy,psivax}!devvax!jplpro!leem | |ARPA: jplpro!leem!@cit-vax.ARPA -or- leem@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-