Comment on Handy temperature conversion scale.

• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe someday a metric country will take 13th place for walking on the moon

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  • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Guess which system NASA uses

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I refuse

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Chuckled at this. Well done

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    • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pre- or post- Mars orbiter?

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      • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well they did for the moon landing, and have as a policy since 1979.

        I didn’t know about why that orbiter failed though, pretty funny!

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    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is worth pointing out though that NASA employees use imperial units in their everyday lives. Using both systems may have given US scientists and engineers a competitive advantage over European scientists and engineers.

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  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That burn was out of this world

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• whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I’m reading through dates, January gives me a hell of a lot more information than “the fifteenth”

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  • moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then use ISO and start with the year, which gives you even more information.

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    • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not necessarily. I work outdoors, the month gives extremely important seasonal context. “A July” tells more than “1985”… although realistically I need both for any conceivable purpose.

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      • moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Also, to be honest, reading dates is not a difficult process. It takes less than a second regardless of whether it starts with a month, a day, or a year. It’s not worth to use that as the basis of discussion. Imo, having the numbers be logically sorted from biggest to smallest unit (or reverse) is worth it just to avoid the confusion.

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