[Main General Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos Didn't a SAE<->Metric conversion error crash a NASA... Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by IrieTom [Email] (#1032) [Profile/Gallery] (more from IrieTom) on Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:29:58 In Reply to: Standard or Metric Tools ?, DavidFromNY, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:10:35 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

spacecraft into Neptune a couple of years ago? That alone should convince us (americans, that is) to finally complete the switch.

I can remember learning about the metric system when I was in grade school back in the '70s, and it didn't take much explaining to show a bunch of 7-year-old kids how much better than the SAE ("standard american english") system. I still don't know exactly how many feet there are in a mile (5 thousand something), but gee-whiz! 1000 meters in a kilometer. 1 cubic centimeter equals 1 milliliter. 1 cc of H2O weighs 1 gram. Can anyone remember how many fathoms there are in a furlong?

Don't even get me started about trying to make physics equations work in SAE...

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• Standard or Metric Tools ?, DavidFromNY, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:10:35
  • Didn't a SAE<->Metric conversion error crash a NASA..., IrieTom , Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:29:58 <-- Viewing This Message
    • I thought SAE was Society of Automotive Engineers (n/m), saabaru, Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:03:10
    • SAE/METRIC STUFF, KsKid, Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:12:25
    • It was Mars not Neptune. n/m, Thorir Jonsson, Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:39:36
  • Isn't it Witworth? n/m, pursang, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:50:11
    • Whitworth? My 71 Norton had 'em n/m, Texron, Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:56:19
  • British Wentworth? :-) nm, Richard Miller, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:05:46
    • Don't laugh. Our Factory in China uses BW threads..., EAL, Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:09:00
    • British Metrication - story.......>>, Troll, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:15:28
      • Whoops - URL to site....., Troll, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:18:00
  • US military on metric - left rest of US to languish?, Troll, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:13:00
    • Because the French invented it... (n/m), EGD , Tue, 5 Feb 2002 08:36:52
      • The french think they invented gravity. n/m, Vlad the Inhaler, Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:00:48
    • US auto industry is on metric too, Jeremy R., Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:10:11
      • All aircraft are still in american measurment., Quinn S. Kurz, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 21:52:13
        • Some aircraft (military) are half and half, KeithR, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 22:03:25
  • i thought metric was the standard! LOL! ;) nm, sab, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:52:49
    • Yeah, for everyone else except D.A. Americans.....n/m, John delRosario, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:08:53
      • hehe! :) nm, sab, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:51:32
  • Metric wrenches, Metric hex keys (allen), and Torx. n/m, Dave Westlake, Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:21:32

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