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Comment by elviejo | Hacker News Reader

I know I'm a snob... but I can't read science news using the imperial system.

You would think either they could parameterise all units or a plausible browser extension could convert elephants to swimmingpools and King's thumbs to badly measured fractions of a diameter.

I made this, but have not tested it yet with this website:

https://github.com/rufname/metricPlease

Everyone knows feet and British stones is the way to measure things in space. Just ask any scientician:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nRnt3TE-V-Y

Ahhhh...

Speaking of "feet" as a measurement - Randall Carlson has an AMAZING video[0] on the source of the 12 inch foot.

And how its all related to the measurement of the precession of the earth. And yes - its specifically how to measure things in space. And its all from Sacred Geometry.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oyZGW99os

Well, the definition of 0ºC is based on the freezing point of water at one atmosphere of pressure, which isn't super relevant on the Moon. You could give it in K but that's not very relatable.

-280F, -173C, or 100K is not relatable to anyone except niche researchers. Maybe slap in the extra few people who happen to work with liquid helium and you are still talking about 0% of the population.

I agree, especially scientific articles should just stick to metric, period.

At least inside the article both units are actually used, just the title is imperial only.

But it only looks like Imperial, it's almost certainly actually US Customary.

No sane person can

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