Reply to post: Re: Typical short-sighted approach

Voyager 2 'stopped' last week, and not just for maintenance

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Re: Typical short-sighted approach

"I think the Americans still use groats and rods in space development. Its the only sign of irony in the whole nation."

Being serious, American rocket scientists managed to produce equations that did not balance their units by the simple expedient of dividing pounds mass by pounds force to simplify equations.

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