Kicking the Metric System to the Proverbial Curb
This is one small step for the lazy, one giant leap for America!
That’s right! The Office of Inspector General had to examine a formal request from NASA’s Constellation Program to throw out the decision to make SI or the Metric System the “lingua franca” as it were.
“We want to get rid of this cockamamie system of 10s and 100s and common sense and back to the nationalistic pride that is the Standard System! What is a meter, anyway? Can you touch it? Of course not, you British and French snobs! Now a foot; that’s a real unit of measure right there. We already have two feet built in…how many meters do you have on your hands?”
Okay, so I paraphrased. The short of it is that NASA said, “No! Deal with it.”
Full story: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=33782
