[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/23/2021 10:42 PM, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at 1:42:27 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 12/22/2021 10:41 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2021-12-22, Dave Froble <da... at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For some of us, "F" is standard.
>>>>
>>>> As is inches, feet, yards, miles, pounds, quarts, gallons, etc ...
>>>>
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> The US lost a probe due to that mindset. :-)
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
>>>
>>> Simon.
>>>
>> I'd suggest the problem was stupidity ...
>
> It was the fact that they were using different systems of units, not that one was using non-metric units. Which goes more toward the "stupidity" explanation.

I totally disagree.  It''s quite simple to convert between systems.

When someone tells you to get off the road, the bus is coming, do you refuse 
because they didn't fill out the proper forms?  That's stupidity.



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