From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 06:17:42 +0200, Antti Kurenniemi
 wrote:

> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
> news:opsiaijak4eipai0{at}news.barkto.com...
>> I was watching a program on NASA TV, detailing the history of the two
>> most recent successful Mars missions.  They were giving temperatures at
>> the
>> surface in Celsius but windspeeds in miles per hour.
>
> Was it because some parts were bought from companies in different
> countries or something like that?
>
> Antti Kurenniemi

No, that's the way we think over here.  Kilometers have never really clicked (heh!).

*I* would like to hear the windspeed in knots, because that's what I'm
used to, but I just have to give it up. (One nautical mile = 2025 yards,
standard mile = 1760 yards, but the real reason nautical miles hang around
is that one nautical mile = one minute of latitude).

--
Steve 
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