Re: Windows Vista is slowing the Navy down ??

"Canuck57" <dave-no_spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> "Moshe Goldfarb" <brick.n.straw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:9t96hqagi7vh.172qilsj253n$.dlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 19:55:15 -0600, Bruce Grubb wrote:
>>
>>> In article <1l1i4zt4ow56w.1le5ew7pmd4of$.dlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>  Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 17:00:21 -0500, Ivan Marsh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 17:57:01 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:47:58 -0500, Ivan Marsh wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:06:43 -0700, The Ghost In The Machine
wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ivan Marsh <ivanmarsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>>>>>  wrote
>>>>>>> At least Java went to Mars.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Was Java running the innards of that 40 million dollar Tonka Toy
that
>>>>>> went brain dead on Mars 10 minutes after it landed?
>>>>>
>>>>> Suggesting that hitting Mars much less landing safely on the surface
is
>>>>> trivial?
>>>>
>>>> Not at all.
>>>>
>>>> The thing fscked up.
>>>>
>>>> I'm just wondering if Java was what fscked it up.
>>>
>>> Might have been who ever NASA used as the subcontracter. Remember how
>>> Lockheed Martin went off and put English standard units into equations
>>> designed for Metric units and got the Mars Climate Orbiter clobbered?
>>
>> I believe they did a similar thing with the Hubble as well.
>> One team was using English the other metric.
>>
>> Personally, as an Engineer, I could never understand the reasoning for
>> Englsih vs MKS.
>>
>>> When I went to college in the mid 1980's our physics book used metric
so 
>>> I
>>> couldn't understand this.  I mean why on Earth would anyone outside
the
>>> automotive industry use English standard units?!
>>
>> The problem is thinking and converting.
>>
>> Example: Typical American (like me) knows a foot is *this long*
(stretch
>> your arms out) but has no idea how big a meter is.
>> They are constantly trying to convert which makes a mess of things.
>>
>> If they were taught in terms of MKS their would be no problem.
>
> Anyone in engineering and science had better know MKS.  Not 100% sure of

> this, but is not the US the last market on earth using metric?  Even the

> British sell gas by the litre. 

Is there some subtle joke in this ludicrous statement?