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"1876 feet". WHYYYY? You're outside the US, keep your obfuscating imperial measures where we can't see them please.
by gpvos 9y ago
"1876 feet". WHYYYY? You're outside the US, keep your obfuscating imperial measures where we can't see them please.
- opinionator1 9y agoYou do realize that it's only "obfuscating" if you can't perform basic arithmetic, and that there are several countries that use imperial measurements?
- StavrosK 9y agoYes, the US, Liberia and Myanmar.
- donatj 9y agoAll the countries that have been to the moon, and more!
- perilunar 9y agoAs Tom Lehrer famously sang: "And what is it that will make it possible to spend twenty billion dollars of your money to put some clown on the moon? Well, it was good old American know how, that's what, as provided by good old Americans like Dr. Wernher von Braun!"
- opinionator1 9y agoCute, but most of the former British empire (including Britain itself) still uses parts of it.
- Symbiote 9y agoThey are writing for an American audience. I'd like to see a browser automatically translate units, perhaps with an extension like [1], but ideally with standard markup. That could also end the mess of brackets on English Wikipedia. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-unit-converter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-uni...
- gpvos 9y agoWell, they shouldn't. The international audience is much bigger.