Have you ever done physics with non SI units? It is terrible and causes mistakes
Comment on everything actually important is already metric
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Let’s not forget that the Apollo space program used SI units at every step, except for displaying it to the astronauts.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
urfavlaura@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
NASA is also really funny and uses millimeters as their base unit for everything.
accideath@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And that a very expensive probe crashed into mars instead of landing because NASA used metric for all measurements but one contractor didn’t get the memo.