From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e927c332cabaf8f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: Loss of Mars Climate Orbiter due to units of measurment conflicts Date: 1999/10/14 Message-ID: <38062935.F35CF3F1@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 536771071 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7t9tvd$9h3$1@netserv.univ-lille1.fr> <1999Oct4.072511.1@eisner> <2A02C30D72C8E6B4.DFCF46BA85758C97.B51FFEB632AE496F@lp.airnews.net> X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@icg.raytheon.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 939927785 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:03:05 CDT) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:03:05 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > > What makes the kilometer a better measure for space travel ? > > The fact that the fundamental constants are rendered in this > set of units? For example, G, the universal Gravitation constant. > And the most accurate earth model terms are also in kilometers. While I am personally in favor of the SI, I must insist that the "fundamental constants" are rendered in whatever units the renderer chooses. I was taught in high school that G = 32.2 ft / sec**2