No, I much prefer metric.
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'Tenths of a Foot'? NASA Unit ???
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A metric smiley would be much more rational but wouldn't actually smile.
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Phil Hobbs
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A company I once worked for provided a space-ruggedized version of a Grid Compass(zero-g cooling and radiation tolerant electronics, mostly) back in the days when an ordinary Compass cost near $10k. It had more computer power than all the originally designed-in shuttle computers combined.
The portable's role was to keep track of onboard supply inventory, and was acronymed PGSC (Payload and General Stores Computer). NASA was not amused that we called it "Pigs in Space".
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..besides, i LIKE to pet a (furry) foot.
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Wanderer schrieb:
Hello,
a little bit rounded: 1 light foot is 1 nanosecond. In metric units even more precise: light needs 1 ns for 30 cm in vacuum, on a cable 20 cm in 1 ns.
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