Author Topic: Converting inches to meters or vice versa check this website  (Read 2399 times)

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Re: Converting inches to meters or vice versa check this website
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2011, 10:43:45 pm »
Back at the top Torsten gave us a NASA link.
If I remember correctly a few years back when the satellite was lost on Mars, both sides of the Atlantic were in on it and they forgot to sync their measurements! The computer could not handle the differences. Bye bye satellite and MILLIONS of dollars. Oops!

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Re: Converting inches to meters or vice versa check this website
« Reply #16 on: March 07, 2011, 03:56:01 pm »
When Jimmy Carter became president he said he'd have the US on metric by 1980, just one of the things he didn't get done. Now we're stuck with wondering which side of the scale/ruler to use. :'(
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