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Comment Re:FP? (Score 1) 942

Metric is based on a 10/10 ratio ... no random 10,000 in the middle.
No idea where you got that from.
Also meters are too long to be useful at human scale
Considering that plenty of cultures on the planet adopted a "meter" as a perfect size, your claim is bollocks.
Hint, a yard is more or less a meter. A "tatami" in Japan is more or less a square meter.
A human is in size between 1 and a half to two meters. A 'big' step is a meter long. Or a yard long ... sounds completely perfect to me.

Comment Re:FP? (Score 2) 942

A foot is about the size of an adult foot, it makes sense.
Sure, that is why my GFs foot is 26cm long and mine is 40cm ... and the actual length of a imperial foot is only 33cm

Time btw is not "imperial" you have a strange idea what imperial is about.

Metric has its place, but using it everywhere makes no sense.
True. But the examples you gave make no sense either. BTW, if laymen say "metric" we pros usually call it SI. And the "second" is an SI unit :D

Comment Re:Economic versus political resistance (Score 1) 942

That is nonsense.
If you have a screw with a 1 inch head you use a 1 inch tool to manage it.
No one is going to ask you to call that screw a 26.xx mm screw, now will the tool be renamed.

Metric only means that you in future use a 12mm or 24mm screw, and the same for a tool fitting those screws.

Or do you really think any german craftsman is juggling with mm and inches back and forth if he has to handle a screw with 1"3 (do you write that so? one 3/16 inch ) by translating that into mm and then looking for a tool of that size? Rofl, the tools are named/numbered like the items they are used for ... it is still an 1"3 arc spanner and not a 30.1234 mm tool (sorry I made the numbers up, so no need to pull out a pocket calculator and correct them)

Comment Re:FP? (Score 1) 942

In an irish pub in germany or in any pub in france you also order a pint of beer.
And no one cares if it is a "true" pint or an approximately pint, as long as the size of a pint and the price is mentioned on the menu/card.

All your examples make no sense.

So 100 yards is more or less, how much exactly of 100 meters?

And you really believe that germans don't use cups and spoons i cooking books, how retarded are you?

Facepalm regarding your temperature rant ... Fahrenheit is determined by two completely unrelated temperatures: 0, the minimum you get with salted ice water ... WATER, oki, you get it? And 100 the "average" temperature of a human body.

Sorry, if it is 40degrees Celsius outside, we all know it is pretty hot, no one is comparing this with his own body temperature.

Units and especially the "normal" span of numbers in those units are just a matter of what you have grown up.

Living a year in a country with different units and you simply adopt them as you did the ones you grew up with.

Comment Re:Cargo (Score 1) 549

Lol ...
Mars once had plate tectonics ...
From a mining perspective there is nothing Mars has not.
There is no oil or coal or nitrates.
IF Mars was once a planet full of live, as most modern scientists believe, then Mars is full with coal and oil.
However I wonder what you want to do with them on Mars. After you have sent ships to Mars, that need solar panels or nuclear reactors to reach it, why would you not reuse those on the plant, or build more.

Comment Re:uhh (Score 1) 549

There are people who believe mars can be terraformed with our days technology in less than 100 years.
www.marssociety.org
Or read the red/blue/green Mars triology. Yes the later is "just" SF ... but also basically only using our days tech.

People don't want to be holed up in geodesic dome glass domes and living underground like insects.
I know plenty of people that either never have left their home city, or when they did just visited another big city (like Paris or London).
For them it would be no difference if the whole city was under a dome.

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