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ChrisC
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« Reply #15 on: 05/12/2012 03:09 AM » |
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The first graphic on page 13 is labeled in miles, whereas the subsequent graphics are labeled in metric units. I hope they correct this in the next revision. They should just stick with metric; if a given writer wants to convert to imperial units for his readers, so be it, but SpaceX doesn't need to be preemptively dumbing it down at this level. Anyone reading this press kit should be assumed smart enough to be able to handle metric.
[shakes fist at Reagan]
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rdale
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« Reply #16 on: 05/12/2012 03:25 AM » |
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My guess is the press kit is intended to get information to the public, and the public doesn't (and shouldn't) give a rats betooty about metrics... STS press kits were all English as I recall.
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Jorge
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« Reply #17 on: 05/12/2012 04:00 AM » |
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The first graphic on page 13 is labeled in miles, whereas the subsequent graphics are labeled in metric units. I hope they correct this in the next revision. They should just stick with metric; if a given writer wants to convert to imperial units for his readers, so be it, but SpaceX doesn't need to be preemptively dumbing it down at this level. Anyone reading this press kit should be assumed smart enough to be able to handle metric.
Journalists uses these press kits as sources for their news stories. Most US news outlets give figures exclusively in English units. Expecting US news outlets to be able to convert metric to English is a bit much.
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ugordan
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« Reply #18 on: 05/12/2012 10:19 AM » |
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SpaceX appears to have reduce the time between first stage MECO and stage separation from the old 7 second interval:
They haven't, it was 5 seconds on C1 as well. It was 7 seconds between staging and MVac ignition. Look up the highlights video.
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Comga
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« Reply #19 on: 05/13/2012 12:08 AM » |
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SpaceX appears to have reduce the time between first stage MECO and stage separation from the old 7 second interval:
They haven't. It was 5 seconds on C1 as well. It was 7 seconds between staging and MVac ignition. Look up the highlights video.
Thanks. I was unable to find that. My recollection is that it was 7 seconds for Falcon 1 Flights 4 and 5. Is that correct? I have no idea now about the delay on Falcon 9 Flight 1, but I was not confusing that interval with the 7 sec between staging and ignition.
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Comga
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« Reply #20 on: 05/13/2012 12:16 AM » |
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(snip) the public doesn't (and shouldn't) give a rats betooty about metrics...
This from someone who quotes atmospheric pressure in inches of linear column of a toxic liquid metal...  Is this really for Joe Public or Jack RocketFan, who might be more likely to be comfortable with the International System, someone who might use HeavensAbove to predict a pass of Dragon and the ISS, and be told their altitude in kilometers. With the revolution in Libya, we may be down to Myanmar as the only other country still using Imperial units.  It is a good question, if OT, but I wonder what SpaceX uses on the floor in Hawthorne, metric or Imperial. Anyone know?
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ugordan
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« Reply #21 on: 05/13/2012 12:20 AM » |
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My recollection is that it was 7 seconds for Falcon 1 Flights 4 and 5. Is that correct?
No, it was never that long. 5 seconds was the updated timing for M1c thrust tailoff and so far F9 has been following that as well.
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manboy
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« Reply #22 on: 05/13/2012 12:27 AM » |
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(snip) the public doesn't (and shouldn't) give a rats betooty about metrics...
It is a good question, if OT, but I wonder what SpaceX uses on the floor in Hawthorne, metric or Imperial. Anyone know?
Judging from their DragonLab PDF, I'm guessing imperial.
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Jorge
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« Reply #23 on: 05/13/2012 03:16 AM » |
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(snip) the public doesn't (and shouldn't) give a rats betooty about metrics...
This from someone who quotes atmospheric pressure in inches of linear column of a toxic liquid metal...
Is this really for Joe Public or Jack RocketFan, who might be more likely to be comfortable with the International System, someone who might use HeavensAbove to predict a pass of Dragon and the ISS, and be told their altitude in kilometers.
It is for Jim Journalist, who has a degree in liberal arts and is writing an article for Joe Public, neither of whom know metric units other than 2-liter bottles of pop. Jack Rocketfan doesn't enter into it. That's why it's called a "press kit" and not a "fan boi kit", natch.
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mduncan36
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« Reply #24 on: 05/13/2012 05:00 AM » |
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Anyone reading this press kit should be assumed smart enough to be able to handle metric. I was once a photographer for a newspaper. You never spent much time with journalists, did you? That's why it's called a "press kit" and not a "fan boi kit", natch. I could not have said it better. Any of us is likely smart enough to understand the "press kit" but it's unlikely the public or most media would ever grasp, nor do they care to understand, anything more than that.
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angleofattack
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« Reply #25 on: 05/13/2012 05:53 PM » |
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I like the 45th Space Wing fact sheet at the end of the press kit - the fleet includes "Atlas VI". Maybe that is the metric version of the Atlas V.
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JBF
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« Reply #26 on: 05/13/2012 06:05 PM » |
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Heh I want a fan boi kit! 
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Avron
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« Reply #27 on: 05/13/2012 06:52 PM » |
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Heh I want a fan boi kit!
see L2.. 
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Comga
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« Reply #28 on: 05/13/2012 11:05 PM » |
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It is for Jim Journalist, who has a degree in liberal arts and is writing an article for Joe Public, neither of whom know metric units other than 2-liter bottles of pop. Jack Rocketfan doesn't enter into it.
That's why it's called a "press kit" and not a "fan boi kit", natch. Point taken and well said. I guess I am spoiled. We had a science writer at our local, small city, paper who was really bright, understood quite a bit, and wrote about it quite well.
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oiorionsbelt
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« Reply #29 on: 05/14/2012 02:41 AM » |
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(snip) the public doesn't (and shouldn't) give a rats betooty about metrics...
This from someone who quotes atmospheric pressure in inches of linear column of a toxic liquid metal...
Is this really for Joe Public or Jack RocketFan, who might be more likely to be comfortable with the International System, someone who might use HeavensAbove to predict a pass of Dragon and the ISS, and be told their altitude in kilometers.
It is for Jim Journalist, who has a degree in liberal arts and is writing an article for Joe Public, neither of whom know metric units other than 2-liter bottles of pop. Jack Rocketfan doesn't enter into it.
That's why it's called a "press kit" and not a "fan boi kit", natch.
Thanks for the new slang And I have L2 but want more
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