From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> > I wonder how much it's obscured things in science because units
> > like these don't make sense?
>
> Wasn't there a shuttle crash / explosion due to unit conversions a few
years
> back?

Yes, except it was a probe not a shuttle. But that's not what I meant, not
conversions. I was trying to say that a system of measurements where you
use units that are not multiples of 10 of each other are not well suited
for physics. I was one of the experimental generation here where they
taught us both english and metric in high school and it was obvious to me
that physics made a whole lot more sense using the metric system for
measuring things like wavelength and the speed of light etc.

Geo.

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