> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Kunz [SMTP:support@MONTANADESIGN.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:05 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [OT] but then again, engineering blunders LONG
>
> >If we where not that picky then NASSA would not have reached the moon
>
> They got to the moon w/o the use of the metric system.
>
        [Don Hyde]  SNIP

        You may recall that OUR moon rocked was designed by OUR German
rocket scientists (as opposed to the Russian effort, which was being
designed by THEIR German rocket scientists).  All of the major dimensions of
the Saturn V moon rocket come out even in metric units (the first stage
rocket was 33-and-some-odd feet in diameter, which works out to exactly 10
meters).  It was designed in metric units, and then converted to "English"
units for American producers.