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rcs · #31 03-09-2007, 06:36 AM

Hey Nanaki,

Do you listen to Alizee when you run/train? What's your favorite song to run to?

Spartan, didn't you say you run also?

Rocket · #32 03-09-2007, 08:07 AM

My husband and I both run. Youpidou is a good song to start while Moi-Lolita is a good one during the run.

zpa · #33 03-09-2007, 10:21 AM

About the SI/US units, I read somewhere that NASA lost a satellite/vessel or something because they got the units mixed up. Someone using inches instead of centimeters or similar.. Is this true?

Sir Wood · #34 03-09-2007, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by zpa

About the SI/US units, I read somewhere that NASA lost a satellite/vessel or something because they got the units mixed up. Someone using inches instead of centimeters or similar.. Is this true?

Unfortunately yes, this did happen.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

Sorry, that this went a little bit off-topic Nanaki.

NANAKI · #35 03-09-2007, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by rcs

Hey Nanaki,

Do you listen to Alizee when you run/train? What's your favorite song to run to?

Spartan, didn't you say you run also?

I am a pole vaulter we don't run also we aren't allowed to wear headphones when we are at practice

Spartan500 · #36 03-09-2007, 07:22 PM

sorry rcs you have the wrong person i don't like to run but i think riva does

rwd716 · #37 03-09-2007, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by badog7

What is weird on this site is seeing 'feet' and 'miles per hour'. When are you yanks gunna grow up and use metric measurements like the french and the rest of the world? HUh?"

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Originally Posted by CFHollister

We do... both science (obviously) and the military are all metric.

Ahh, CF, you stole my rebuttal, lol, although not all of the mil's measurement are in metric. We pretty much use both, although I think we still use the English system more. Generally we save metric for the more complex/senstive measurements and english for the "knuckle-draggers" out on the flightline, lol. Also, to go a step further, even though electric terms are the same in different countries i.e. Volt, Amp, Ohm, etc, they're actually different values. The volt we use in the U.S. is like 1.0 blah blah blah of a "true volt." Yeah it would be nice to all use the same measure, but in a way it's like, "Why don't we all speak the same language too?"

Edcognito · #38 03-10-2007, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by AlphaDevil2

Fair enough! Although as you know non-Amewricans frequent the site, surely it would have been polite to use "Track or what non-americans may know as running events in athletics" at least giving us non-US citizens a chance.

Jeez sometimes I think you Americans have ruined our beautiful English language

Americans have ruined the English language.... However... I doubt that any English AFTER shakespear could be considered beutiful!

rcs · #39 03-10-2007, 08:06 AM

RWD,

You said two words that I am very familiar with, "knuckle-draggers" and "flightline." LOL

What's your job if you don't mind my asking?

I'm Sheetmetal.

NANAKI · #40 03-10-2007, 05:51 PM

I vaulted 9'6" would have had 10' but didn't have a trail leg