Builder93 said:
Ag with kids said:
Builder93 said:
That gave me chuckle, then I realized NASA probably used the metric system to get to the moon.
Having worked with a lot of old code, much of which was originally written in the 60s and 70s, I'm skeptical that metric was used. None of the code I worked with used metric.
The Googles says it was used for calculations, but Imperial was the language of the pilots, so they used Imperial for their understanding where applicable.
Interesting. I don't remember any of the old engineers I worked with (many of whom started LONG before the Apollo program was even thought of) using metric...
I understand displaying everything in imperial because Americans (not just pilots) are calibrated in those units (hell, I've been an engineer over 30 years, know metric well, and still am not calibrated in it). Seems stupid, though, to waste limited computing resources to have to do all those conversions though, when you could just use imperial throughout the code.