Comment on Scientists are hoping to redefine the second – here's why
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year agoWith a full switch to metric, hopefully. We’ve lost a Mars probe to unit confusion already.
Comment on Scientists are hoping to redefine the second – here's why
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year agoWith a full switch to metric, hopefully. We’ve lost a Mars probe to unit confusion already.
TeenieBopper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not everything needs to be base 10.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year ago
No but everyone’s life will be easier. Fortunately, most space agency empoloyees are scientists who embrace the metric system because it is less error-prone and does away with arbitrary conversion like in^3^ / floz. Space civilians will hopefully follow suit.
Metric also has a different unit name for force (N) and mass (kg) as opposed to the ambiguous pound – which works well enough on Earth but not on bodies with different gravity.