Imperial system not even make difference between weight and mass, it is the most outdated system worldwide and the cause of a lot of desastres with even victims, because due to calculation errors, inherent in this system.

[–] F_State@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For day to day life, weight and mass might as well be the same. I love science and astronomy but I'm not buying a pound of lunch meat at the deli counter to take into space.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, when I buy a pound of lunch meat in the EU, they give me 500 g of lunch meat, because this is what for us is a pound. The SI system are round clear and related numbers which make it easy to calculate, the Imperial system isn't, nothing to do with going in space or building a quantum computer, but simply calculating the amount of plants with a distance of 2 inches in a garden with 20 feets.

[–] F_State@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

I was talking about weight vs mass

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I remember reading somewhere that NASA adopted the metric system precisely because of that.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Yes, too expensiv crashing two Marsprobes because a crappy Unitsystem