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[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Could be a communication thing. As much as I love the metric system, for frontfacing stuff like articles, scientists have to sometimes use freedom units.

At least that was my experience with school.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And that is precisely why the Mars Polar Lander failed.

https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/

Face it, the USA has defined the inch as 25.4 mm. It did so in 1933. The country is already metric, it's been metric for 92 years.

It's time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

isn't it used by science and the military already lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, it's just the rest of the country that needs being brought into the 21st century.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

That temperature is hotter than anyone could really imagine to the point that any scale is meaningless