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why is the US not Metric
rdl:
I'm pretty sure no one in the bottom picture is orbiting the Earth.
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The people you see floating in the pictures below are orbiting around the earth's center of mass (at least at the moment the picture was taken and considering the earth's mass much greater than the orbiting people's).
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bsfeechannel:
--- Quote from: rdl on February 03, 2020, 07:53:51 pm ---I'm pretty sure no one in the bottom picture is orbiting the Earth.
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Precisely. They are orbiting the earth's center of mass. Unfortunately (of fortunately, depending of your point of view) between them and the earth's center of mass there is a mud pond.
Gyro:
--- Quote from: rstofer on February 03, 2020, 07:31:19 pm ---Of course we snagged up as many German scientists as possible. Germany has always had a superb educational system and world class scientists. They were far ahead of the rest of the world. There is no debate about that, it is fact. There's a reason my parents had me take 4 years of German in high school (graduated '63) and perhaps this led to my being stationed in Mannheim, Germany rather than Viet Nam. It was interesting, the young people in Germany (Boomers) all spoke English. Or at least the ones I encountered and their English was far better than my German.
The US should keep combing the planet for talent and do whatever is necessary to bring them to the US. We do quite a bit of that with our Doctoral and Post Doctoral education/research system and the associated visas. We need to expand that! And we need to make it easier for those scientists and engineers to bring their immediate families. The H1B visa is not the way to attract high skill talent.
Need a foreign scientist? Try a million dollar signing bonus! It's worth every penny!
We do grow a few of our own at places like Cal Tech, Stanford, MIT and Berkeley but it's probably cheaper to import.
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... and you don't see an irony in all of your 'imports' having Metric as their first language, because I think most people here do. ;)
rstofer:
--- Quote from: Gyro on February 03, 2020, 08:35:25 pm ---... and you don't see an irony in all of your 'imports' having Metric as their first language, because I think most people here do. ;)
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Nope! They're scientists and engineers, of course they're going to use metric. Until they use imperial and crash a lander...
My contention is that ordinary people, folks who aren't scientists or certain types of engineers do now, and always will, use imperial units. We're never going to change for all the reasons I posted earlier. You can see that after 47 pages of useless interaction, nothing has changed. Nor will it ever! But keep on posting...
Gyro:
--- Quote from: rstofer on February 04, 2020, 02:37:39 pm ---Nope! They're scientists and engineers, of course they're going to use metric. Until they use imperial and crash a lander...
My contention is that ordinary people, folks who aren't scientists or certain types of engineers do now, and always will, use imperial units. We're never going to change for all the reasons I posted earlier. You can see that after 47 pages of useless interaction, nothing has changed. Nor will it ever! But keep on posting...
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So you're talking about "ordinary people, folks who aren't scientists"... Then why do you keep parroting the...
--- Quote from: rstofer on February 03, 2020, 05:50:52 pm ---Just remember: There are two types of countries, those who use metric and those who have left footprints on the Moon.
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...crap then? That hasn't got anything to do with the doings of "ordinary people", it's the achievement of "scientists and engineers", who by your own admission are using METRIC.
It's got bog all to do with your non-metric using country having "left footprints on the Moon". ::)
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