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  • NASA: It would cost $370 million to convert to metric

    I'm actually surprised that they haven't converted already, especially in the 70's and 80's pushes. But the fact that they even wasted time calculating how much it would take to convert(the cost is BS, by the way), shows that they still don't want to move into the 20th... more

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  • Rated by Orotim on Jun 30, 7:31pm

    Big Brother could do it and you would never know . . . 370 million is chump change anyway

  • Rated by sciboy1190 on Jun 30, 11:24am

    From the page: "Pay me $10m and I'll tell them how to use: =CONVERT(number,"ft","m")"

  • Rated by mumu23 on Jun 30, 4:59am

    Hee hee, NASA scientists are in fact idiots! Still using old-skool measurements, very amusing.

  • Rated by Nutzilla on Jun 29, 7:20pm

    I'm actually surprised that they haven't converted already, especially in the 70's and 80's pushes. But the fact that they even wasted time calculating how much it would take to convert(the cost is BS, by the way), shows that they still don't want to move into the 20th century(no I don't mean 21st). Also it's not "imperial" that is the old British system, ours is different but was based on it though. They should still use metric, all the rest of the countries of the World do, and most companies have switched.

  • Rated by ChrisDudman on Jun 29, 4:18pm

    Watching the JPL videos they give measurements in Metric. So there must be some very dimensionally confused scientists. They could crowd-source the job through distributed computing using BOINC? I agree with Stumbler webchat: "Actually it beggars belief that NASA didn't start using metric in the 70s, along with the rest of the scientific community. The sooner they convert the less it will cost. They should bite the bullet and they'll avoid the metric/imperial problem that destroyed the mars lander."

  • Rated by Oiprocs on Jun 29, 3:41pm

    Hahaha.. I thought in interesting until the threw the word Excel in there. C'mon. If Nasa uses Excel to calculate celestial trajectories, I'm surprised we made it off the earth.

  • Rated by just-me-two on Jun 29, 3:38pm

    NASA use Excel? That's a very scary idea.

  • Reviewed by C-Resolution on Jun 29, 2:46pm

    Nasa uses Excel?...