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And yet literally the entire world aside from United States, Liberia, and Myanmar is able to grasp it perfectly. So such a statement would either insinuate tha
by kstenerud 3y ago
And yet literally the entire world aside from United States, Liberia, and Myanmar is able to grasp it perfectly.
So such a statement would either insinuate that Americans are genetically inferior somehow, or you're just culturally attuned to an outdated British system.
- _8j50 3y agoWhat are you talking about? Look at the context before you get outraged. The comparison to metric here is "plutos" kind of like measuring with bananas. Saying a million km is not the same as saying "one moon distance".
- mardifoufs 3y agoSo genetically inferior that they are the only ones with a craft that is 4 Plutos away :)
- phist_mcgee 3y agoCould have been 5 plutos if they used metric.
- croes 3y agoNASA uses metric
- mardifoufs 3y agoNASA are still Americans. I'm not arguing about metric or imperial being better.
- croes 3y agoParent claims genetic inferiority for not grasping metric, NASA does, so they are excluded in the first place. Same with "military" time.
- WrongAssumption 3y agoNASA didn’t begin to standardize on metric until 1990. Far after Voyager was developed and launched.
- croes 3y agoNASA already used metric internally for the moon landings https://ukma.org.uk/why-metric/myths/metric-internationally/the-moon-landings/ https://ukma.org.uk/why-metric/myths/metric-internationally/... And I doubt that calculations for the voyager mission where done in imperial. The output and for contractors yes, but internally it's metric.