Rob wrote:

wrote:

"The largest of the two new rockets, called the "New Glenn 3-stage," is an
enormous 23 feet in diameter (about half the length of a school bus), 313 feet
tall (close to the height of the Apollo moon rockets), and will spew out 3.85
million pounds of thrust — about half as powerful as NASA's Saturn V launcher.

Size in feet and weight in pounds? Is it designed in the 19th century?


It's designed someplace that's actually capable of doing it. Real
aeronautical engineers work in feet, pounds, and Rankine.


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