Griffin bye-bye at NASA?

Jan Vorbrüggen wrote:

To confuse as much as possible, I suggest quoting velocities in
furlongs per fortnight and time in microfortnights (just saw
Wikipedia has a seperate entry on those). Follow the lead of VMS,
noting that in the implementation, a microfortnight has been
approximated as one second. And then compute an orbital rendezvous in
those units...

I still want to figure out the apogee and perigee of the ISS in Roman
Stadia, its velocity in Egyptian Cubits per second, and its overall mass
in Hebraic Talents.
As long as we are going to drive people to distraction trying to convert
one measurement form to another, let's sort the wheat from the chaff by
seeing who actually can _handle_ something like that in their future
postings. :-D

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:

I still want to figure out the apogee and perigee of the ISS in Roman
Stadia, its velocity in Egyptian Cubits per second, and its overall
mass in Hebraic Talents.
As long as we are going to drive people to distraction trying to
convert one measurement form to another, let's sort the wheat from the
chaff by seeing who actually can _handle_ something like that in their
future postings. :-D

BTW, although Roman Stadia is a fixed distance, Egyptian Cubits varied
by dynasty, as did Hebraic Talents did in biblical times.
So, although I might not end up as "chaff", I do need input on what form
and time period one wants those measurements to be measured by, and a
good, solid, day to work on the math in regards to that (if I get around
to it)... and no guarantee that my answer will actually resemble
anything correct unless by random chance.
But, other than that, I stand by my intellectual challenge and sorting
of great minds as expressed in that posting. ;-)

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote:


I still want to figure out the apogee and perigee of the ISS in Roman
Stadia, its velocity in Egyptian Cubits per second, and its overall
mass in Hebraic Talents.
As long as we are going to drive people to distraction trying to
convert one measurement form to another, let's sort the wheat from the
chaff by seeing who actually can _handle_ something like that in their
future postings. :-D


BTW, although Roman Stadia is a fixed distance, Egyptian Cubits varied
by dynasty, as did Hebraic Talents did in biblical times.
So, although I might not end up as "chaff", I do need input on what form
and time period one wants those measurements to be measured by, and a
good, solid, day to work on the math in regards to that (if I get around
to it)... and no guarantee that my answer will actually resemble
anything correct unless by random chance.
But, other than that, I stand by my intellectual challenge and sorting
of great minds as expressed in that posting. ;-)

Don't you use Einsteinian time-distance conversions were a time is
considered to be equivalent to the distance light travels in that time.
For instance, I am about 5.24 femto-fortnight tall and about
2.2 peta-furlongs old.


Alain Fournier

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:02:24 -0500, Alain Fournier
wrote:

Don't you use Einsteinian time-distance conversions were a time is
considered to be equivalent to the distance light travels in that time.
For instance, I am about 5.24 femto-fortnight tall and about
2.2 peta-furlongs old.

....Yes, but can you make the Kessel Run in 12 par-secs?

OM
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