Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be?
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoDownvoted for the use of ridiculous units
Comment on If you smoothened out the earth, how high would the water level be?
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoDownvoted for the use of ridiculous units
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Ahaha. All the people from the US downvoting this 🤦♂️ So many solutions to questions like this a just easier and more intuitive in metric. Tec diving is just hilarious in imperial units
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I’m fine with imperial units, as long as somebody stays in one unit system and doesn’t mix miles, yards, feet and inches, or square miles and acres, etc.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I’m fluent in what you listed too… but everything you listed is just meters in metric so that’s five-ish conversions to needlessly need to know. And if you start using equations in then standard units play up a lot like when diving with imperial units you measure depth in feet but pressure in pounds per square inch so you have an awkward feet to inch right there and the equations are just more complicated. Anything beside the simple gets compounding unit conversions. And the countries left in the world that only use imperial are the US, Myanmar and Liberia.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Definitely. But fortunately, everything here has the dimension length to the power of something.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Like, nautical miles have a good use but that’s not even the miles being used
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Imperial units are fine. They have rational conversion ratios between them and standard metric. I was in bed at the time and miles is what I got from search results.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Sure, they’re great for people chatting casually in the US, Myanmar and Liberia but they add unnecessary complexity with scientific or engineering applications
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
OK