On Aug 21, 12:54*pm, "
wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:27:36 -0500, "HeyBub" wrote:

Sure. Tell that to the group that engineered the Hubble Space Telescope
where confusion over metric/proper measurements resulting in the launch of
an almost worthless instrument.

Huh? *What did MKS/FPS have to do with Hubble's mirror shape?

It doesn't. That's one of them there scientific old wives' tales, as
related by our resident old wife.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_...of_the_problem

R