Timeline for Why did NASA use U.S customary units?
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| Jul 24, 2019 at 17:33 | comment | added | Uwe | @MichaelMatthews It was clear to me that you are in no way endorsing the "communist units" view. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 17:20 | comment | added | user91988 | @DevSolar I don't see what election results have to do with your claims, and I guarantee I have more friends in the States than you. :) | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 17:19 | comment | added | DevSolar | @only_pro I've got several friends in the states... and we see your election results too. ;-) | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 17:06 | comment | added | Michael Matthews | @Uwe to be clear, I am in no way endorsing the "communist units" view (which I took as hyperbole,) but it was a reminder that for many in that era the moon race was thought of as a proxy battle in the Cold War. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 16:48 | comment | added | user91988 | @DevSolar How often do you visit the US? You're talking about 1% of people... it's negligible. Every country has stupid people who don't understand basic things. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 11:39 | comment | added | user20636 | The accepted answer is a "frame challenge" -- which is an acceptable form of answer @OrganicMarble, and while it doesn't answer the question title, it does speak to the "why add this complexity to the calculations" from the question itself. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 11:33 | comment | added | Organic Marble | @JCRM the accepted answer doesn't answer the question either...such is the way of stack exchange :) | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 10:46 | comment | added | DevSolar | @Uwe: To a certain part of the US population, everything originating in Europe is communist, or at the very least socialist. Their political scale of reference is somewhat skewed that way. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 10:17 | comment | added | Uwe | "those damned communist units."? When the metre convention was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations (Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Ottoman Empire, United States of America, and Venezuela) there was no communist system, not in France and not in Russia. French revolution was over, Napoleon dictatorship too, France was a republic and Russia was reigned by the Zar. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 10:04 | comment | added | ANone | The point being made (I think) is that mostly: groups used consistent base units and stuck with them. The conversion to the most natural or common 'old units' was only an outer wrapper to the heavy lifting. The heavy lifting (code/design etc) might not be too heavily impacted by the full weight of the crazy of the imperial system. (voting to keep). | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 6:15 | comment | added | user20636 | It does, however, give some indication of the culture @OrganicMarble and as such is supplemental information. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 23:05 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Jul 23, 2019 at 23:04 | comment | added | Organic Marble | This is interesting, but it doesn't answer the question "Why did NASA use Imperial units"? Stick around, spend some time on the site, and you will soon be able to comment. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 22:16 | comment | added | dan04 | I was a student at Texas A&M in the early 2000s. ENGR 111/112 still heavily used English units (with both pound-mass and pound-force variants), although by then the faculty had at least stopped referring to SI as "damned communist units". | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 22:10 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 23, 2019 at 22:09 | history | answered | Michael Matthews | CC BY-SA 4.0 |