What's in a "foot"? (Surveying)

[Tractor Seabee]

PennDOT already tried to go metric. It was a horrible failure. I don't see the foot going anywhere anytime soon. (bigfoot or little foot)

The Feds tried to go metric with construction contract documents, bot full metric and merticised (my coined word) US foot. Both failed. I know a lot of contractors either did not bid or added a lot of money for the ripple effect especially with job site mistakes. We had to check and double check every measurement, US manufacturers do not produce stuff for domestic metric products.

Two years later it was dropped.

Ron

 

[Oldpath05]

Wish we would switch to the metric week already, ten days would be perfect !

That would be great long as the extra days are on the weekend.

 

[Oldpath05]

There are some other very nice metric things also.
The metric screwdriver
The metric pliers
The metric desert, and dinner plates
Lots more!

Like the hog dog buns that are sold in metric while hotdogs are sold in standard measurement, coffee is in metric, coffee cups are in standard and McDonalds is still on the fence, but the two measurements are good for tool makers.

There lots of surveying in shipyards and construction buildings, probably the switch wont matter there, if it does level still works right.........

 

[Jstpssng]

Like the hog dog buns that are sold in metric while hotdogs are sold in standard measurement, coffee is in metric, coffee cups are in standard and McDonalds is still on the fence, but the two measurements are good for tool makers.

There lots of surveying in shipyards and construction buildings, probably the switch wont matter there, if it does level still works right.........

As long as everybody is speaking the same language everything is fine. It's when one starts talking in inches while the other is using centimeters that things could get a little funky.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Yeah. You mean like Commercial Jetliners running out of fuel over metric/imperial confusion. Happened!

 

[Vaquero]

We got men on the moon, and back, with feet, inches, yards and miles.

 

[k0ua]

We got men on the moon, and back, with feet, inches, yards and miles.

Not really...Internal calculations were Metric and readouts were Imperial.

The Moon landings – UK Metric Association

 

[Vaquero]

Not really...Internal calculations were Metric and readouts were Imperial.

The Moon landings – UK Metric Association

From your link.
The computer display readouts were in units of feet, feet per second, and nautical miles – units that the Apollo astronauts, who had mostly trained as US Air Force pilots, would have been accustomed to using.

 

[k0ua]

From your link.
The computer display readouts were in units of feet, feet per second, and nautical miles – units that the Apollo astronauts, who had mostly trained as US Air Force pilots, would have been accustomed to using.

True, that was why it was done that way so that the astronauts would "feel right at home". Couldn't have a descent rate in meters per second now could we?

 

[Vaquero]

What have the failed missions used?