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Cerebus:

--- Quote from: KL27x on November 19, 2019, 06:32:33 am ---As long as you get some kick out of this, I am here for you. I will be here to represent the stupid American for you to condescend. I created Trump. That's all me. Destabilization of the Middle East? My plan. The #6 machine screw in your blender? I did that just to piss you off. Global warming? You guessed it.

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Oh, that's all down to you is it? C'mere and just have a little chat with me. Somewhere quiet. Lets go round the back of the barn...  :)
KL27x:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on November 19, 2019, 11:14:04 am ---
--- Quote from: KL27x on November 19, 2019, 06:32:33 am ---As long as you get some kick out of this, I am here for you. I will be here to represent the stupid American for you to condescend. I created Trump. That's all me. Destabilization of the Middle East? My plan. The #6 machine screw in your blender? I did that just to piss you off. Global warming? You guessed it.

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Oh, that's all down to you is it? C'mere and just have a little chat with me. Somewhere quiet. Lets go round the back of the barn...  :)

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Oh, yes, I can't wait for it. To get you even hotter, please don't forget I created Monsanto to make your country barren and fertile. I drop smart bombs on your weddings from an air conditioned control center in california. I killed all the bees.

So when we get back to your private love nest, I should be disappointed if you are going to lecture me on using the wrong road signs.
Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: KL27x on November 19, 2019, 09:21:03 am ---1999 Mars Orbiter? The Polar Lander produced by the same NASA era also failed for a totally different reason. They were using different methodology trying to minimize costs.

That was 20 years ago, and they managed to land a rover on Mars that did ok since then. They managed to land a man on the moon 25 years prior to that. They managed to send a bunch of manned shuttle missions up into the black yonder.

Do you think NASA or JPL did anything different on those other successful missions other than to not make a critical mistake? Being serious, not sarcastic. :-//

Those smart cookies did not care what units the software was coded in, as long as it was converted. Or something like that. And why would that change? The problem wasn't units; the problem was a human error. Do you think America changing its road signs will prevent this kind of error in the future? Do you think JPL engineers don't still use imperial (and metric?). I dunno? Maybe they erased imperial from their company, completely? Maybe not? Or do you think maybe they test the software and verify the results first before launching a rocket to Mars?

You might say if imperial did not exist, this kind of problem would not happen. True. Of all the things that could have been faulty in SOFTWARE, well, this is just one straw in a giant haystack. Maybe JPL makes their employees wear diapers and take away all sharp objects, now, too, so the geniuses have less things to worry about while getting a rocket all the way to frikkin Mars?

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I was referring to manufactured components for an international cooperation that were supposed to fit together but didn't but the Mars Orbiter would be another example. When the best and brightest get it wrong when it counts you have to wonder how the rest of the world is doing.
KL27x:
Just one small thought for you before I head to the office.

Before you usher in the new era where people will no longer miss their test questions due to a unit conversion error....

.....Please stop to ponder the number of megatons of nuclear ICBM's that America has which were designed in imperial and may contain imperial in the software. Details are probably classified. But America trusted ft-lbs to get a man to the moon without blowing him up on an international stage. And these weapons were built during the 1980's cold war era under Reagan, shortly after. So do you think the programming constant for the payload weight is in kg's or in lb's?

In some way you could say America has a duty to be fluent in both systems, legally and academically.
Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: KL27x on November 19, 2019, 07:00:00 pm ---Just one small thought for you before I head to the office.

Before you usher in the new era where people will no longer miss their test questions due to a unit conversion error....

.....Please stop to ponder the number of megatons of nuclear ICBM's that America has which were designed in imperial and may contain imperial in the software. Details are probably classified. But America trusted ft-lbs to get a man to the moon without blowing him up on an international stage. And these weapons were built during the 1980's cold war era under Reagan, shortly after. So do you think the programming constant for the payload weight is in kg's or in lb's?

In some way you could say America has a duty to be fluent in both systems, legally and academically.

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The rockets that went to the Moon were metric internally.
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