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Our Friend, The Meter

Posted by timothy on from the you-mean-people-like-nasa dept.

dbirchall writes "Upon hearing that SpaceShipOne reached 100km today, I did some hasty math based on the altitude in feet sttated by Scaled Composites in their press release, and was surprised to come up with a number under 100,000 meters. Fortunately, a friend pointed out that my inches-to-meters conversion was flawed. Some quick Googling determined that lots of people still have no idea how many inches are in a meter, even after some folks have had big problems because of conversion errors."

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  1. 42 ? by destiney · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    You mean it's not 42 ? Oh wait..

  2. Re:At least we know. by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's 0300 in the morning and I haven't been asleep for a long time. Give me a fscking break.

  3. Re:It matters because by skatull · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You /. yourself? Geek insult? Go /. yourself? Naw not a insult, that is a complement!

  4. Re:Go Metric. Period. by nmjon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Inches and feet are based on measurements from the pyramids, which were built by aliens using an intergalactic measurement. When they come back and find out a bunch of people have changed, they are not going to be very happy, except with the ones who still use inches and feet.
    Spare me o alien masters!