On Saturday 18 January 2014 18:53:25 Fons Adriaensen did opine: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 05:29:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > It should have been > > common knowledge that the biggest contributor to JPL's payroll had > > been mandating metric units for decades when that little "forehead > > slapper" occurred. > > No just common knowledge. In the space business you can't create > even the most trivial piece of hardware, software, or process > without having an Interface Control Document for it. And those > ICDs are reviewed. Yet the interface between JPL and NASA was > apparently 'undefined'... > > Ciao, Having visited the JPL site, admittedly in the 1959 time frame, I came away with the impression they had some phenomenally long noses to look down to see normal people. They were a force to be reckoned with at the time since we were in the middle of building a bird to give John Glenn his first ride. That and a "damn the torpedo's, all ahead flank to the engine room" attitude. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Required reading: <http://culturalslagheap.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/elemental/> If you suspect that this message may have been intercepted or amended, please call the sender. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
