nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de to Anything But Metric@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 1 year agoHow many hands long do they get?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down113file-textcross-posted to: shitposting@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1124arrow-down1imageHow many hands long do they get?lemmy.mlnutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de to Anything But Metric@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square20linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: shitposting@lemmy.ml
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-21 year agoUm, ACU is a result of British Imperial. Brits still use Imperial in day-to-day conversations. Metric is still largely bound by human scale - Celsius is bound to water at earth pressures and temps. Meter is bound to earth circumference: one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the meridian Today it’s defined as: the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 seconds Utter arbitrary nonsense to continue to use the yard and calling it by a different name. This whole meme is a joke fueled by hubris. At least Kelvin is tied to a universal constant. (I use both ACU and metric every day, they’re simply different).
Um, ACU is a result of British Imperial.
Brits still use Imperial in day-to-day conversations.
Metric is still largely bound by human scale - Celsius is bound to water at earth pressures and temps. Meter is bound to earth circumference:
Today it’s defined as:
Utter arbitrary nonsense to continue to use the yard and calling it by a different name.
This whole meme is a joke fueled by hubris. At least Kelvin is tied to a universal constant.
(I use both ACU and metric every day, they’re simply different).