Francis wrote:High Seas wrote: be thankful that "slow motion" (slow? how slow - microseconds, picoseconds, milli...??)
With those units it is usually fast motion..
Eh non, Monsieur, ce n'est pas le cas - not if you've ever worked in high-altitude satellites, that is, where your own (French) metric system rules.
In the most recent communications from the Mars rover, the digits after the year, month, etc, as in "20080627".....et al, numbered in the hundreds. HUNDREDS. Think it through, and be grateful that you, unlike some of the compulsive posters here, can actually THINK.