• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe
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      7 days ago

      Unless you give me a reason for converting miles to inches outside of a lab, you haven’t shown what you say you’ve shown.

      I can demand you do a bunch of time conversions in your head and pretend your inability to do so means we should switch to metric time. But that would be silly.

      I took an astronomy course in college (in America). Want to guess what system we used? It wasn’t inches.

      Though even astronomy uses AU, which isn’t an even base-10 multiple of meters but a useful human-scale (or solar system-scale) measurement.